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Early photographers collection, 1860-1943

Overview of the Collection

Title
Early photographers collection
Dates
1860-1943 (inclusive)
1880-1943 (bulk)
Quantity
11 boxes
Collection Number
PH0334
Summary
The work of photographers, primarily in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska but including other locations
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
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Languages
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Content Description

The photographers in this collection operated in Washington State, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska, with a few from other areas outside the Pacific Northwest. The majority of the collection contains material from photographers active in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, British Columbia. Most of the photograph mounts bear photographers' imprints which often indicate street address in addition to city. For Washington State photographers if the photographer's location is given as in "Washington Territory" this would place their dates before 1889. Some materials are photographic postcards that bear postage, postmarks, and correspondences.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Photographs are grouped in folders according to the photographers last name or the photographic studio. Where two or more photographers share a last name, first and middle initials have been added to the folder name. Individual photographs are then numbered according to this folder-naming nomenclature and followed by sequential Arabic numerals.

Processing Note

Title of some images revised to align with harmful language guidelines. Revison completed by G. Mandarino, June 2023

Related Materials

The dates of these photos run roughly to 1943. Photos later than around 1940 are in the Mid-Century Photographers Collection, PH1298.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • A.1. Commercial Photo Service

    A.1. Commercial Photo Service, 525 Pender St. W in Vancouver, B.C., was operated by Maurice Lumley Hawksley from 1927 to 1948.

  • Aaberg, John P.

    According to the Tacoma City directories, John P. Aaberg had a studio in Tacoma, WA from 1892 through 1919.

  • Abel, H.V.

    H.V. Abel was part of the Mountaineers.

    • Description: Nevada Falls in winter, Mount Rainier, Washington
      Dates: 1912?
      Container: Box 1, Item Abel H.V. 1
      Location: Abel, H.V.
    • Description: Snowshoers on a wagon road, Mount Rainier, Washington

      Written on verso: Snowshoeing on wagon road between Longmire Springs and Reese's Camp.

      Dates: 1912?
      Container: Box 1, Item Abel H.V. 2
      Location: Abel, H.V.
    • Description: People in snow with mountain in background, Mount Rainier, Washington

      Written on verso: Bed of Nisqually river on Pony Trail between Longmire Springs and Reese's Camp, looking down stream,

      Dates: 1912?
      Container: Box 1, Item Abel H.V. 3
      Location: Abel, H.V.
    • Description: Snow covered bridge, Mount Rainier, Washington

      Written on verso: Bridge on wagon road near Paradise Valley.

      Dates: 1912?
      Container: Box 1, Item Abel H.V. 4
      Location: Abel, H.V.

  • Abell, Frank G.

    Active in Portland, Oregon 1878-1899 and 1897-1907.

    Frank G. Abell (1844-1910) was born in Illinois and moved with his parents to California in 1857. In 1862, at the age of 18, he joined the firm of William Shew in San Francisco, where he spend 4 years learning the art and business of photography. On his own, Abell opened his first gallery, the Abells Star Gallery, in Stockton in 1866. Moving back to San Francisco the following year, he then worked his way north, through Grass Valley, Red Bluff, and Yreka, arriving in Roseburg, Oregon in 1877.

    From 1878-1888 he was located at 167 & 169 1st St., Portland. He worked with his son George L. Abell, at addresses: 29 Washington St. and Labbe Building, fourth floor, 1884-1887. After a few years Abell went to San Francisco for a while, and later returned to Portland to stay, 1897-1907. Elbridge W. Moore bought and continued the photography business at the same location.

    Known primarily for his studio portraits, his gallery in Portland was both spacious and well furnished, including an "elegant piano for the free use of patrons". Abell also produced "Cards, Cabinets, Panels, Boudoirs, Stereoscopic and Out Door Views, and Living Statues", the latter being photos of living subjects arranged to present the appearance of a marble bust on a pedestal. He moved to Tacoma in 1908 in failing health, and died in 1910.

    See Also: Abell, Frank G. & Son

    See Also: Moore, Elbridge W.

  • Abell, Frank G. & Son

    Frank Abell (1844-1910) and his son George L. Abell were active at addresses: 29 Washington St. and Labbe Building, fourth floor, Portland, Oregon, 1884-1887. The photograph business was purchased in 1888 by Elbridge W. Moore.

    See Also: Abell, Frank G.

    See Also: Moore, Elbridge W.

  • Adams, Edward C.

    Active in Fair Haven and Dawson, Yukon Territory, Alaska, 1896-1915.

    E.C. Adams worked as a photographer at C.W. Barts studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1896 and later moved to Nanaimo, British Columbia, to become a partner in the Adams & Pierce Studio.

    Adams established Adams & Co. in Dawson, Yukon Territory, with Charles D. Rothwell, circa 1901. George W. Larkin joined as partner, Adams & Larkin 1902-1905. When their partnership dissolved, Adams then reverted to its previous name of Adams & Co.. Adams worked with Jirden L. Anders, 1905-1906. Adams’s photographic equipment was later purchased by the Dawson photographer E.O. Ellingsen.

    • Description: Studio portrait of an elderly man, Fair Haven, Alaska
      Dates: 1901?
      Container: Box 1, Item Adams 1
      Location: Adams, Edward C.

  • Aiko Studio

    Active at 613 ½ Jackson, Seattle, Washington, 1911-1925.

  • Aldrich Photo Company

    Aldrich, Byron L., Jr. was active in Tacoma, Washington, 1901-1916.

  • Alexander, Joseph W.

    Active in Juneau Alaska, circa 1940-1950.

    • Description: View of the men and women seated in session at the House of Representatives, Territorial legislature, Juneau, Alaska
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 1, Item Alexander 1
      Location: Alexander, Joseph W.

  • Alexander, William George

    William George Alexander (1880-1960) was born in Kansas. He operated a photography studio in Rainier, Oregon in 1910, and moved his studio to Douglas, Washington by 1915. He was active in Amira and Creston, Washington circa 1913-1916. After World War I, Alexander became a wheat farmer in Eastern Washington until his death.

  • Allen, Henry Tureman

    Lt. Allen (1859-was a member of the 2nd Calvary and participated in longest exploratory expeditions on the North American continent in American history, the Allen Expedition of 1885. The 1885 Allen Expedition entailed exploration of uncharted terrain and resulted in many new discoveries. It was the first time westerners traveled from the coastal regions of south-central Alaska northward through the Alaska Range into the Yukon drainage. From there the expedition continued westward to the Bering Sea — completing a total of 1,500 miles in less than 20 weeks.

    Had it not been for the Alaska Native people encountered, at times the small group of travelers might have perished. The Unalakleet were considered “members of the crew” for a portion of the trip. Surprisingly, Allen continued to take up war against the Native American population once he returned to the lower 48 states.

  • Allen and Perkins

    Frank Perkins and Walter Allen operated the Georgetown Photograph Studio active at 6105 ½ 13th Ave South, Georgetown Station, Seattle, Washington from 1911-1915. In 1916 the studio was moved to 717 ½ 3rd Avenue. From 1917-1920 only Frank Perkins is listed as a photographer at the 3rd Avenue location.

    • Description: People seated in car decorated for Memorial day
      postcard

      Written on verso: Henry & Ann Willard-653 Homer St Georgetown Wash.

      Dates: 1911?
      Container: Box 1, Item Allen Perkins 1
      Location: Allen and Perkins

  • Alvord, Charles A.

    Active in McMinnville, Oregon.

    Charles A. Alvord and Ben E. Hughes possibly were briefly co-proprietor photographers, for Hughes & Alvord at 992 N. 24th, McMinnville, Oregon, 1889. The firm is listed 1890, but only Alvord shown.

  • Amano, James M.

    James Masatoku Amano was born in Choshi, Japan on May 9th, 1887. He came to Seattle, Washington aboard the SS Aki Maru on April 23, 1915. He was a photographer at the Jackson Photo Studio, 624 Jackson, Seattle, Washington, circa 1919-1925. He had two children with his wife, Zen. All were interned at Camp Minidoka during WWII - Amano via the Department of Justice Internment and Detention in Santa Fe on July 9, 1943; and his wife, son and daughter via the Puyallup Assembly Center on August 10, 1943.

    Amano Photo Studio was active at 3208 35th Ave. South, Seattle, Washington, circa 1957.

  • American View Co.

    The American View Co. stamp on the verso reads: Flashlights and interiors a specialty. Prop's [ill.] Park. Other photographers using the name American View Co. are known to have operated in Wisconsin, Oregon, California and Dakota. The relationships, if any, are not known.

    • Description: Group of men in interior of general goods store
      Dates: between 1900 and 1920?
      Container: Box 1, Item American 1
      Location: American View Co.
    • Description: Group of men, possible store workers, in interior of general goods store

      Same store as in item American 1.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1920?
      Container: Box 1, Item American 2
      Location: American View Co.

  • Amrhein, Joseph

    Active in Frances, Washington.

  • Amstel Studio

    • Description: KJR radio group, The Mardi Gras Gang

      Written on photo: "The Mardi Gras Gang" Jack Little, Thomas Freebairn Smith, Herb Bartlett, Casey Jones, Bob Youse, Bob Monsen, Grant Merrill, Al Schuss, Olive Reynolds, Cowboy Jo, Elmore Vincent "The Horse", Gorgonzola Swivelface "Bless her", Homer Sweetman "Malted Milks 13¢, Oogie Awful.

      KJR Seattle was the first radio station to be licensed in the Pacific Northwest.

      Dates: September 1931
      Container: Box 1, Item Amstel 1
      Location: Amstel Studio

  • Amsden, William O.

    William O. Amsden was part of the Seattle Photo Co. in 1890 along with Chester B. Walsworth. The office was located at 15 Shorey Blk. Amsden was also part of the Mountaineers and in 1890 was part of the Mount Rainier climbing party that included Fay Fuller, who upon the completion of this ascent was the first woman to stand on the summit.

  • Anderson, Charles D.

    Anderson's studio, Anderson Photo Art and Commercial Photography was active at 110 E. Heron St. Aberdeen, Washington, circa 1925-29, 212 West Heron Street, Aberdeen, Washington and Tacoma, circa 1919. He was known for his short films of everyday occurrences in Grays Harbor, Washington that may have been used to supplement national films that were shown locally in town.

    • Description: View of testing the Donovan-Corkery Logging Co. forest fire departments fire train and hoses, Wishkah River, Grays Harbor County, Washington

      Written on verso: Fire tank car test (Coats-Fordney) Donavan- Corkery Logging Company about 1930-Wishkah River, Grays Harbor County, Wash. B.H. McGillicuddy.

      Dates: May 15, 1929
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Anderson 1
      Location: Anderson, Charles D.
    • Description: Five masted ship The Vigilant at the docks, Hoquiam, Washington

      Written on photo: Hoquiam River.

      Dates: between 1920 and 1940?
      Container: Box 1, Item Anderson 2
      Location: Anderson, Charles D.

  • Andrews, Edmund

    Active in Douglas, Alaska

    Ed Andrews (1872-1937) was born in Norway. According to a note from donor Carolyn Brown, he changed his name from Edvard Engrebretsen to Ed Andrews when he immigrated. Later he moved to South Dakota where he lived on the family farm. In 1897, he came to Douglas and worked as a clerk in the Treadwell Store. After owning and operating a restaurant he opened the Ed Andrews photography studio.

    As a prominent Douglas photographer, Andrews distributed images to dealers all over Alaska. He also served as the official photographer for the Admiral Line, the Alaska Steamship Line, Copper River Railroad, White Pass and Yukon Railway and for Captain Sid Barrington, Stikine River navigator. On December 2, 1937, The Daily Alaska Empire, reported that Andrews’ negatives were lost in one of the Douglas fires. Andrews lived in Douglas until his death.

  • Andrews, E.B.

    Active in Hoquiam, Washington.

  • Apeda

    Located at 33 West 34th Street, 102-104 West 38th Street, 212-216 West 48th Street and 525 West 52nd, New York. The studio opened in 1906 and was operated by Alexander W. Dreyfoos and Henry Obstfield. Apeda Studios focused on sports, theater and celebrity portraiture.

  • Ashman & Yeager

    Active in Olympia, Washington, circa 1865-1867.

    W.J. Yeager (1829-1883) was a ambrotypist active in Olympia, circa 1865-1867. In 1865 he operated a studio on Fourth Street near Main in rooms formerly occupied by Edward M. Sammis. From November 1866 to January 19, 1867 he was in business with John V. Yantis for 2 months. Later he partnered with William M. Ashman, circa 1867.

  • Asplund, John E.

    Asplund died December 12, 1915 at the age of 51, in Arlington, Washington.

  • Atkeson, Ray

    Ray Atkeson was born February 13, 1907. He was a commercial photographer from 1929-1946 in Portland, Oregon. His studio was located at 215 Swetland Building, Portland, Oregon. His commercial studio was known as Photo-Art. In 1946 he switched to more free-lance work, photographing landscapes and skiing in Washington and Oregon. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Linfield College as well as the Oregon Governor's Art Award among others. He died May 25, 1990.

    The Ray Atkeson Photography Collection was donated to the University of Oregon in 2018. It contains over 250,000 negatives which are available to researchers

    See also Photo-Art below.

    See also PH 1298 Mid-Century Photographers.

  • Avery, Frank Fuller

    Active in Colville, Washington, 1898-1916.

    Frank Fuller (also known as F.F.) Avery (1862-1872) was born in Indiana. He began working for the Indian School Service on September 22, 1890. Before moving to Washington State he and his wife, Anna Avery, whom he married in 1892, were employed by the Indian Service in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Crow Creek, North Dakota. He became associated with the Colville Indian Agency and from 1898-1916 Avery worked in a number of capacities, first as superintendent of the Indian Boarding School at Fort Spokane, and then as inspector of Colville Indian Agency Day Schools. Photos from the Colville Indian Agency, were taken between 1901-1916 when Avery was assigned to the Colville Indian Agency. The images record agency headquarters and personnel, along with numerous photographs of Colville Indian farmers and school children.

  • Axtell Photo

    Located at 110 West Main, Seattle, Washington.

  • Bachrach, Louis Fabian

    Active in Washington.

    Louis Fabian Bachrach, Sr. (1881-1963) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in 1897, studied at the Maryland Institute of Design from 1898-1899, and attended the Art Students' League in New York City in 1900.

    Bachrach was a second generation photographer. In 1868, Bachrachs father, David, opened a photographic studio in Washington and another in Baltimore. Louis began his photographic career by working with his father in Washington and Baltimore and by helping several photographers in New York. In 1904 Louis continued the national chain by opening a studio in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1915 he assumed the presidency of Bachrach, Inc., a position which he retained until 1955. He was succeeded by his son, Bradford. Bachrach, Inc. is said to be the “longest continuously operated photography studio in America.” today. By 1929, there were 48 Bachrach studios, and at its height it included forty-eight studios with six hundred employees. He died in semi-retirement in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Bailey, E. J.

    Edwin J. Bailey was active at the Baileys Photo Parlors at the Newlin Block, 218 Columbia St., Seattle, Washington, 1889-1898. Later, as Bailey, E.J. & Co., with the Wellington School, at 16 Colman Bldg., Seattle, Washington, 1899-1902.

  • Baird, John A. & Aldrich, Frank

    Baird and Aldrich were proprietors of the Worlds Fair Studio, and active at 1426 Third St. in Seattle, Washington, 1891-1892.

  • Baker

    Active in Yakima, Washington.

    • Description: Man with trees at logging mill

      Stamped on verso: American Engraving Co, Atwater 3613.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Box 1, Item Baker 1
      Location: Baker

  • Baker & Johnson

    • Description: Native American Indian Eastern Shoshone chief Washaki, wearing ceremonial headdress and holding a pipe, Evanston, Wyoming

      The photographers set up a makeshift studio with suspended backdrop on the grounds of Fort Washakie, the home of the military garrison stationed on l the Wind River Reservation. In 1883, President Chester A. Arthur visited Fort Washakie and the reservation while on a journey to view the Yellowstone country. This is one of the best known photographs of Washakie (circa 1804- 1900), perhaps the most famous of all Eastern Shoshone headmen and leaders. Washakie holds a catlinite pipe with wooden stem, with attached eagle feathers. Across his lap is a rifle. He wears an eagle feather bonnet with tail, his gorget and neckerchief, a long cotton checked shirt (possibly a calico), and a sash around his waist.

      Dates: between 1883 and 1885
      Container: Box 1, Item Baker & Johnston 1
      Location: Baker & Johnson

  • J.P. Ball & Sons

    Active in Seattle, Washington, 1892-1904.

    James Presley (J.P.) Ball Sr. (1825–1904) was a prominent African American photographer abolitionist, and businessman. Ball was born in Virginia, probably a freeman. As a young man he learned daguerreotyping and opened his first studio in Cincinnati (1851) at age twenty. He hired his future brother-in-law, Alexander Thomas, around 1851-52. Thomas became a full partner in the business in November of 1857 to March 1860. Ball & Thomas became known as "the finest photographic gallery west of the Allegheny Mountains." In Cincinnati, by 1853, Balls studio included nine employees. "Balls Great Daguerrian Gallery of the West" quickly became one of the most well known galleries in the United States. Balls younger brother, Thomas C. Ball, continued as a studio photographer in partnership with Alexander Thomas until Thomas death in 1875.

    Balls work was featured in exhibitions of photography at expositions held in 1852, 1854, 1855, and 1857 at the Ohio Mechanics Institute. At the 1857 exposition, Ball and another photographer won a bronze medal for photography. Ball experienced financial difficulties between 1865 and 1871. He lost a substantial amount of money as a result of "unfortunate speculations" and his assets were liquidated at a Constables sale in 1868, though he continued with limited funds under the supervision of the Bankruptcy Court. Ball gave his son an interest in the business in 1869 and the firms name was changed to Ball & Sons at 106 Columbia St. Bet. First & Second Aves, Seattle, Washington. In about 1887, he went to Montana with son James Presley, Jr. and now well into his sixties, he opened another busy daguerreotyping studio in Helena.

    In the second half of 1900, Ball followed his son J.P. Ball, Jr., to Seattle in the Western Territory of Washington. Ball Jr., opened the Globe Studio in 1892 and Ball & Sons studio in 1897 while he was developing a practice as a lawyer. Ball Sr. remained active in civic affairs and founded and organized Shriners' lodges in Seattle and Portland. He left Seattle for Honolulu, presumably for the change in climate to help relieve his crippling rheumatism. He opened a studio in his home in Honolulu, which was probably run by his daughter, Estella. Ball Sr. died on May 4, 1904, in Honolulu.

  • Banks, Clyde

    Clyde Banks was a pioneer photographer in Whatcom County and owned Cylde Banks Camera and Art Shop. He died April 17, 1977.

  • Bardo & Mills

    Active at 606 2nd St., Seattle, Washington, circa 1885.

    Possibly Lloyd M. Bardo, also active at 713 3rd Ave. and 717 ½ 3rd Ave., Seattle, Washington, 1892-1911.

  • Barkalow Bros.

    Barkalow Bros. was a news company that operated newsstands that sold tobacco products, candy and candles. Barkalow Bros. was located at 407 S 15th Street and the Union Pacific Headquarters Building in Omaha, Nebraska.

    • Description: Cowboy on a horse
      Dates: 1916?
      Container: Box 1, Item Barkalow 1
      Location: Barkalow Bros.

  • Barnard, Thomas Nathan

    Active in Waukon, Idaho, 1861-1880; Murray, Idaho, 188; Wallace, Idaho, 1889-1913; and Montana.

    Barnard was brother of Alonzo A. Barnard, another Waukon photographer who had a studio in Waukon in 1880s and 1890s in partnership as Huffman & Barnard. He was the son-in-law of his partner, P. C. Huffman, having married Huffman’s daughter, Della. His brother, Thomas Nathan Barnard, went to Idaho and produced stereographs there.

  • Barnes, Lafe W. & Evans, Frank M.

    Barnes and Evans (1864-1946) partnered in Snohomish, Washington, late 1890s.

    Deputy Auditor Frank M. Evans was born in Minnesota in 1864. He studied art and photography in Kansas City and opened a gallery there with Mr. (Lafayette W.) Barnes. In 1888 they arrived in Washington and decided to locate and set up a studio in Snohomish.

  • Barnes, Albert. H

    Albert H. Barnes (A.H.B) was active in Parkland and Tacoma, Washington, 1906-1910, and photographed the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska 1912.

  • Belcher Photos

    Belcher Photos were Bill and Catherine Belcher. They were active at 1083 Adams Street, Olympia, Washington and advertised "Photos at Home, Church, Lodge or Groups, Reasonably Priced."

  • Bertrand, E.E.

    Active at 324 Monroe St., Spokane Falls, Washington, circa 1888-1890, and Spokane, Washington, 1892-1893.

    E.E. Bertrand (Edward E. Bertrand or E. Edison Bertrand) was a stereo photographer and owned E.E. Bertrand's Studio. He employed Frank Clinton Bailey as a crayon artist in his studio.

  • Best, W.H.

    Active at 2298-1st Ave. W., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, circa 1900.

    • Description: View of Mt. Baker and the Fraser River from Ruskin, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

      Printed on verso: From the Studio of W.H. Best, F.R.S.A., A.R.P.S., Vancouver, Canada. 2298-1st Ave. W.

      Written on verso: Mt. Baker from Ruskin at the Fraser River (B.C.).

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 1, Item Best 1
      Location: Best, W.H.

  • Bischoff y Spencer

    Eduardo Clifford Spencer was an American born photographer who moved to Chile circa 1870 to Valparaíso. He began working with Carlos Bischoff at this time. In 1879 the War of the Pacific was declared and the team, with the authorization of the Chilean army, was sent to Bolivia and Peru to document the soldiers.

    • Description: Portrait of a man seated
      Dates: 1870?
      Container: Box 1, Item Bischoff 1
      Location: Bischoff y Spencer

  • Blair, Homer O.

    Active in Tacoma, Washington.

  • Blankenberg, John M.

    John Martin Blankenberg was born in Tragdor, Norway, October 24, 1860. He was active in the Yukon Territory, Haines, and Dyea, Alaska circa 1901. He died August 19, 1939 in Tenakee, Alaska.

  • Blome, John Henry

    Active at Hewill Avenue, near Chestnut St., Everett, Washington, 1893.

    Blome (possible name variant, J.W. Blome) (1853-1902) worked in California, 1888-1892, before coming to Washington. After his time in Washington, Blome again ventured northward working in several locations in British Columbia. He was a photographer in Ashcroft, 1895-1896, and appeared in Kamloops, November 1898. He also worked in Clinton and traveled throughout the Okanagan and Nicola valleys. Blomes obituary called him "an artist of more than average ability".

  • Boland, Marvin D.

    Marvin D. Boland moved to Tacoma in 1915 and photographed a wide range of subjects including landscapes and celebrities. He was known for his panoramas that he took with a circuit camera. He operated photography studios in Tacoma from 1915-1949. Boland died 1950 in Bremerton, Washington while photographing Navy ships.

  • Bolton

    Was located at 119 Madison, Seattle, Washington.

  • Bone, C.C.

    Active in Washington, circa 1940s.

  • Booen, J. Orville

    Booen was born in 1864 in Shellrock Township, Minnesota. In 1888 he was working for Judkins Photograph Studio and married Cina Nevin. He ended up in La Conner, Washington around 1889 working for LaRoche and Boyd. Later in 1889 he bought the photography studio in La Conner to open his own business. In 1895 he and his family moved to Chilliwack. He died in 1934.

  • Booen & Ewing

    David B. Ewing arrived in Washington in 1885 and partnered for a photography business with Booen in La Conner and Anacortes, Washington, circa 1890.

    Booen was also active in Snohomish County, Washington, 1895 and as an itinerant in Chilliwack and other portions of British Columbia 1895-1897.

    Ewing operated Ewing's Studio Everett, Washington, 1893-1902

  • Boorne & May

    William Hanson Boorne and his cousin Ernest Gundry May opened a photography business in Calgary in 1886. Boorne was the main photographer while May developed the photographs. They photographed mountain views, railroad construction and small cities and towns.

  • Boren, R.L.

    R.L. Boren is listed as a photographer in a city directory in Deming, Washington in the 1920s..

    • Description: Loggers working for the Parker-Bell Lumber Company sitting in a partially cut huge tree near Pilchuck, WA

      Written on verso: Largest fir in these parts 12 1/2 diam. 4' from ground.

      Dates: 1911
      Container: Box 1, Item Boren 1
      Location: Boren, R.L.

  • Borgersen, Orville

    Orville Borgersen was a skier and ski photographer. He explored various ski routes and possible ski routes on Mount Rainier and was a part of the Washington Ski Club. He often photographed while on ski trips and shared his photographs with the ski club. He won the Seattle Times Amateur snap shot competition in 1935 and would continue on and start filming ski outings. He had three brothers who were all skiers as well, Melvin, Le Roy and Stanley. Orville's father was a furrier and Orville grew up in the business, graduating from the Mitchell Designing School in New York and continuing his studies at fashion centers in Europe. In 1955 he was elected the Chairman of the Seattle Retail Trade Bureau and to the board of the Master Furrier's Guild of America Inc. He retired from the fur business in 1977.

    • Description: Skiers going downhill
      Dates: between 1930 and 1940?
      Container: Box 1, Item Borgersen 1
      Location: Borgersen, Orville

  • Bowen, Chapin

    Chapin Bowen was a commercial and newspaper photographer active in Tacoma, Washington from 1925-1955. His father was Reverend Dr. Charles A. Bowen and he has seven siblings. His studio was located in the Y.M.C.A. Building at 714 Market Street, Tacoma, Washington.

  • Bowmer

    This may be H.L. Bowmer, the publisher of the Burlington Journal, the first publication in the town.

  • Bradley, Levi

    Active at Cor. 19th and Harris Sts., Fairhaven, Washington 1890.

    Briefly in partnership with Orrin E. Monnett, they ran the Monnett & Bradley Studio, 1890. After working in Fairhaven, Bradley moved his business to Seattle, 1905-1907.

  • Edwin L. Brand

    Active at 210 and 212 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. Established 1858.

  • Brandt, Karl

    Active at 713 1st Ave, Union Block building, Seattle, Washington, 1911-1915.

  • Bratt, J.H.

  • Brodeck & Co.

    H.H. Brodeck and M. Wagner, active at Main Street, opposite First, Walla Walla, Washington, 1880-1886.

    Listed as Brodeck & Company (Brodeck, Henry H. & Gray, W. Vallance) in 1876, San Francisco Directoryand at 640 Market St. San Francisco, California.

  • Brown, B.B.

    Active in Bellingham, Washington.

  • Brown, Harold M.

    Harold M. Brown was born June 2, 1887 in Minnewaukan, North Dakota. He was a commercial photographer based in Camas, Washington focusing on the logging industries in Oregon and Washington. During World War II, Brown also served as an army photographer. He died on August 2, 1956.

    • Description: Man inspecting a piece of lumber
      Dates: between 1940 and 1950
      Container: Box 2, Item Brown H. 1
      Location: Brown, Harold M.
    • Description: Truck carrying trees through forest
      Dates: between 1940 and 1950
      Container: Box 2, Item Brown H. 2
      Location: Brown, Harold M.
    • Description: Lumber stacked in warehouse
      Dates: between 1940 and 1950
      Container: Box 2, Item Brown H. 3
      Location: Brown, Harold M.

  • Brown, James

    James Brown was (1865-1925?) was a California-born Chinese-American photographer. Together with his wife Nellie (1887-1966), Brown operated a photo gallery at 227-1/2 Washington St. in Portland, catering to the Portland area Chinese-American community. After his death, Nellie continued to operate the studio and gallery until World War II.

  • Brubaker Aerial Surveys

    Active in Portland, Oregon, 1920s-40s. Active at 602 Buyers Building, Portland, Oregon.

    William C. 'Bill' Brubaker owned Brubaker Aerial Surveys, and was possibly the first West coast aviation regional commercial aerial photographer. Many of his photographs turned into post cards and were used on promotional brochures. His customers included the F.B.I. and Boris Karloff. He sold the company, Brubaker Aerial Surveys to a former employee, Leonard Delano, in 1946.

    Al Monner was employed as a photographer by Brubaker Aerial Surveys from July 1931-March 1932.

  • Buchtel, Joseph

    Joseph Buchtel (b. 1830) was active at 93 First St., Portland, Oregon in numerous partnerships, ventures, and studios 1853 - circa 1880.

    Buchtel learned daguerreotyping in Urbana, Illinois in 1851-3. He moved to Portland by 1853, opening a studio but also traveling to various places along the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. Buchtel apparently sold his studio to W. H. Towne in 1880. Aside from being the cities leading photographer, he was a prominent Portland citizen in other ways, such as serving as the fire chief and the Multnomah County Sheriff.

  • Buchtel & Cardwell

    Active at 89 First St., Portland, Oregon, 1859-1866.

    J.R. (possibly Joseph) Buchtel partnered in business with Byron Cardwell, Buchtel & Cardwell's Picture Gallery, starting 1864. Cardwell eventually bought Buchtel's interest in the firm. Buchtel was a dentist and taxidermist who also operated a museum of stuffed animals in connection with the studio.

  • Buchtel & Stolte

    B & S, Joseph (J.R.) Buchtel & E.H. Stolte, were active at 91, 119 and 121 First Street, Portland, Oregon, 1873-1880.

  • Buck, Leroy F.

    Active at 3418 Fremont Ave., Lippy Bldg., Fremont Station, Seattle, Washington, 1923-1925.

  • Burdett Studio

    Active at C St. Tacoma, and 1925 First Avenue, Seattle, Washington.

    The Burdett Photo Studio was operated in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. The studio in Seattle was managed by George H. Launer 1907-1908. In 1909 he was joined by his business partner William Colville.

  • Bushnell, Corry A.

    Active in Ellensburg, Washington, 1891-1895.

    See also: James & Bushnell (Eli M. James and Corry A. Bushnell). Bushnell (1866-1941), Seattle, Washington, 1903-1922.

    See also: Christy Studio. Bushnell partnered with Pinney, W.A., Seattle, Washington, 1918.

  • Camp, Elston H.

    Elston Camp was active on Bell Street, Seattle, Washington. He was the assistant secretary of the Yong Man's Christian Association circa 1890

  • Campbell Studios

    Campbell Studios Ltd. was a commercial photographic studio operating in Vancouver, B.C. In 1931, it was located at 569 Granville Street. The firm was founded by photographer William J. Campbell (1886-1958), under the name Campbell's Studios Ltd in 1921. He was joined in the company by his son, John S. Campbell (1919-2004) in 1945 or 1946, with William Campbell as President and John Campbell as Manager. The firm was still in operation in 1996.

  • Cann, Charles F.

    Charles Cann was active in Fairbanks, Alaska circa 1923- circa 1946. He was born circa 1886 in Estonia. He moved to the United States circa 1906.

  • Cardwell, R.H.

    Active at the corner of Commercial & Washington Sts., above the Seattle public market, Seattle, Washington, circa 1876. Cardwell was active in Portland, Oregon, circa 1868 before establishing a studio in Seattle, and was brother of Portland photographers Byron and J.R. Cardwell.

  • Carpenter, Albert C.

    Active at 915 C St., Tacoma, Washington, 1892-1900.

  • Carr, Anthony P.

    Anthony Pitman Carr was the eldest son of Job Carr, (Tacoma's first mayor and postmaster and notable pioneer who constructed the first non-native residence in Commencement Bay), who came to Tacoma in 1865 and went into business with photographer and camera furnisher E.A. Light. Carr had a photograph gallery in Marshalltown, Iowa from 1863-1864 and one in Tacoma from 1866- circa 1900. Prior to his move to Tacoma, Carr was a soldier in the Civil War who delivered photographs and messages to President Lincoln.

    Copy prints of glass plate negatives. Original glass plate negatives are lost.

    • Description: Man leaning against Job Carr's cabin that is under construction, Tacoma, WA
      Dates: between 1866 and 1900?
      Container: Box 2, Item Carr 1
      Location: Carr, Anthony P.
    • Description: Wooden house with people standing in doorways, Tacoma, WA
      Copy print
      Dates: between 1866 and 1900?
      Container: Box 2, Item Carr 2
      Location: Carr, Anthony P.
    • Description: Small town with field with logs, Tacoma, WA
      Copy print
      Dates: between 1866 and 1900?
      Container: Box 2, Item Carr 3
      Location: Carr, Anthony P.
    • Description: Town buildings with boardwalk, Tacoma, WA
      Copy print
      Dates: between 1866 and 1900?
      Container: Box 2, Item Carr 4
      Location: Carr, Anthony P.
    • Description: Church building with people standing on front porch, Tacoma, WA
      Copy print
      Dates: between 1866 and 1900?
      Container: Box 2, Item Carr 5
      Location: Carr, Anthony P.

  • Carratt, Harry

    Harry Carratt (1870-1941) was active in Goldendale, Washington, 1895-1902. He was partners in the studio Miller & Carrat, and active in Arlington, Oregon.

  • Catterlin & Lussier

    Frances J. Catterlin and William Lussier were active in Salem, Oregon, 1889-1893.

    Catterlin also partnered with Lute J. Hicks.

    Lussier also partnered with James J. Tyrrell and Samuel B. Crow, Portland, Oregon, circa 1890s.

  • Cawthon, James B.

    Active in Palouse, Washington, 1901-1902.

    James B. Cawthon was a traveling photographer. He partnered as Cawthon & Warren in 1885. He Cawthon photographed various places in Washington including Spokane Falls, 1890, Spokane, 1892; partnered with William R. Read, as Cawthon & Read, 1893, Palouse, 1901-1902; Everett, 1903-1904; various Seattle (including Ballard) locations, 1904-1913; and partnered as Cawthon & Steward, 1912. He was active in Portland, Oregon, 1888-1889, and in Victoria, B.C., 1898. Cawthon is also spelled Cawthorn.

  • Chamberlain, E.

    E. Chamberlain Photographic Studio was active in Sitka, Alaska. He was a photographer and artist, and taught art classes in Sitka, Alaska.

  • Chandler's Photo Service

    Located ib DeLake, Oregon.

  • Chehalis Art Company

    The Chehalis Art Co. was located in Chehalis, Washington. It was possibly owned by William Drummond of Drummond's Studio and his wife Lucinda Clippinger.

  • Cheney, E.

    Active in Oregon City, Oregon, 1896-1901.

    Three Cheney siblings worked as professional photographers, in Oregon City and McMinnville. Eston and his sister Edith both had studios in Oregon City, while Ethel partnered with Bessie Krumm in McMinnville. Eston, the oldest of the three, was the operator of Cheney's Art Gallery in Oregon City from 1895-1901. Shortly after he sold his business to William Snodgrass in 1902, the youngest, Edith, opened her own Oregon City gallery. Ethel, who was already listed as a photographer in the 1900 Oregon City census, became a partner with photographer Bessie Krumm in McMinnville in 1905. She may have worked earlier in Portland at the Imperial Gallery and at Lewis and Krumm. Krumm was rooming with the Cheney family in Oregon City in 1900.

  • Chew, George C.

    George Chew was an engineer in the City of Seattle water Department into the 1930s.

  • Chicester, H.D.

    Active in Alaska, Yukon, and the Pribilof Islands, 1897-1911.

  • Christy Studio

    W.A. Pinney managed Christy Studio, at 1006 Northern Bk & T Bldg., and 1007 Seaboard Bldg., Seattle, Washington, 1912-1919. During this time period, Pinney partnered with C.A. Bushnell at Christy Studio, 1918. Charles D. Lothrop was associated, and possible new manager of the Christy Studio, 1920.

    See also: Bushnell, Corry A.

    See also: Lothrop, Charles D.

  • Clark, E.A.

    E.A. Clark was born in Pennsylvania and moved to California in 1850 and Washington in 1852. He was the Justice of the Peace and County Auditor for some time and was known for his daguerreotypes. He has been referred to as Seattle's first resident photographer. He died April 27, 1860 at age 32.

    • Description: Building with people on porch at Front and James Street, Seattle

      Written on photo: N.E. Corner Front & James St. Seattle. Copyrighted 1891 A.N. Brown. Boyd and Braas Photo.

      Written on verso: Seattle 1859 The home of Henry L. Yesler Corner of James St. & First Ave. (Present site of Pioneer Block)

      This photograph, originally created by E.A. Clark, was copied multiple times by various photographers or publishers including, Boyd & Braas, Ashmun Norris Brown, Ashael Curtis (26433) and Webster and Stevens (151x).

      Dates: 1859
      Container: Box 2, Item Clark E.A. 1
      Location: Clark, E.A.

  • Clark's Photo Studio

    The proprietor of Clark's Photo Studio was Lloyd W. Clark. He was born in Viroqua, Wisconsin and moved to Lansing, Michigan at the age of 19 to apprentice in a photography studio. In 1902 he moved to Kent, Washington. He was active in Kent, Washington 1902-circa 1925. He was also a pilot and engineer and had worked for many years on river boats along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. He died September 21, 1935.

  • Clemons, Basil

    Active at 819 3rd Ave., Seattle, Washington, 1919.

  • Collison, Margaret Keating

    Collison was born in 1870. She had an interest in photography and American Indian art. She lived in Portland, Oregon at 443 East Clay Street with her husband, a house plasterer. She died in 1945.

  • Colpitts, Claude C.

    Active at 614 ½ 2nd St., Seattle, Washington, 1902-1904. Colpitts was also active as Colpitts & McKnight (Claude Colpitts and Samuel F. McKnight), at 113 ½ Marion St. Seattle, Washington, 1902; and in Tacoma, 1902. He was with Colpitts Studio Co. (Claude Colpitts and A.F. Herpich, jr.), at 113 ½ Marion St., Seattle, Washington, 1904; and in Mt. Vernon, 1909-1910.

  • Combest, S.B.

    Active in Juneau, Alaska, 1917.

    • Description: Cave-in (a large sinkhole) and mine buildings at Treadwell, Alaska

      On April 21, 1922, one of the largest disasters in Juneau mining history began to unfold - the collapse of one of the mines at Treadwell. Combest documented through his photographs that a flood would be the virtual end of most of the Treadwell mines. By the morning of the 22nd, the Treadwell, 700-Foot and Mexican mines had flooded completely. Although a handful of horses and mules were lost in the cave-in, no miners died, in part thanks to a shift change just before the flood.

      Dates: August 22, 1917
      Container: Box 2, Item Combest 1
      Location: Combest, S.B.
    • Description: Cave-in (a large sinkhole) at Treadwell, Alaska

      On April 21, 1922, one of the largest disasters in Juneau mining history began to unfold - the collapse of one of the mines at Treadwell. Combest documented through his photographs that a flood would be the virtual end of most of the Treadwell mines. By the morning of the 22nd, the Treadwell, 700-Foot and Mexican mines had flooded completely. Although a handful of horses and mules were lost in the cave-in, no miners died, in part thanks to a shift change just before the flood.

      Dates: August 22, 1917
      Container: Box 2, Item Combest 2
      Location: Combest, S.B.

  • Coons Bros.

    Active in Sitka, Alaska.

  • Corbett, Leslie R.

    Leslie R. Corbett was born on February 9, 1882 in Grand Island, Nebraska. He worked as a photographer in Whatcom County, Washington in the 1920s and 1930s and resided in Bellingham, Washington. He married Martha G. Harding who died of tuberculosis October 21, 1931. Corbett was a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics Bay City Council No. 3. Leslie Corbett died May 13, 1938.

  • Cornish

    George B. Cornish inherited William Prettyman’s studio, located at 125 West Fifth Avenue in Arkansas City, Kansas in 1905. Cornish was an active photographer until 1937. He died in 1946.

    • Description: Pomeranian dog
      Dates: between 1920 and 1930?
      Container: Box 2, Item Cornish 1
      Location: Cornish

  • Corser, Harry Prosper

    The Reverend Harry Prosper Corser (1864-1936) was born in Portageville, New York. He was a Presbyterian minister and a writer. While living in Wrangell, Washington, 1910, and authored a book titled Totem Lore Of The Alaska Indians.

  • Cowan Studio

    Cowan Studio was located at 4730 University Way and was owned by William R. Cowan and his wife Lucretia Cowan.

  • Cox, A.H.

    The A.H. Cox Building was located at 414 1st Ave. S., Seattle Washington.

    See the Henry Broderick Photograph Collection, PH Coll 685, item 18, for a photograph of the A.H. Cox Building and offices, circa 1919.

  • Cress-Dale

    John D. Cress was born August 12, 1864. His father was a Union Army Staff Surgeon in the Civil War. In 1890 he opened the Chicago Transparency Company. In 1912 he moved to Seattle to work as a photographer for the American Lumber, a trade journal. In 1916 he started a photography business with L.R. Dale. Their studio was located in the Crary Buildings, Seattle. The partnership was announced dissolved in the Seattle Times on January 19, 1924. Cress died in December of 1938.

    • Description: Confirmation class of Immanuel Lutheran Church in front of church altar
      Dates: May 6, 1923
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item CressDale 1
      Location: Cress-Dale
    • Description: Aerial view of University of Washington campus, Seattle
      Dates: 1922?
      Container: Box 2, Item CressDale 2
      Location: Cress-Dale
    • Description: Lake Union from Denny Regrade neighborhood

      This is a copy print.

      Dates: Between 1912 and 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 2, Item CressDale.3
      Location: Cress-Dale

  • Crissman, J.

    Active in Bozeman, Montana.

    • Description: View of the Grotto Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Montana
      Dates: 1880?
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Crissman 1
      Location: Crissman, J.

  • Cromwell, Alfred

    Active at 606 2nd St., Kilgen Block, Seattle, Washington.

    Cromwell was a commercial photographer, and was active at Judkins Portrait Gallery.

  • Cronise, Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson Cronise was born in Peru, Illinois in 1853. He moved to Salem, Oregon at age 29. He married Nellie Riggs in 1884. Cronise bought a photography studio from William P. Johnson in 1902 located in the Bush-Brey Building at Commercial and Court. Thomas and his wife, along with their son Harry operated the studio from 1902-1972.

  • Cross and Dimmitt

    Arthur B Cross and Edward L. Dimmitt sold photo postcards of the Columbia River Gorge, Mt. Hood and Portland. Cross opened a studio in 1909 in Portland and in 1914 Dimmitt started working there. In 1916 they became partners. They frequently sold their post cards out of their car, a Model T, at Crown Point. As their business grew they built a stand at Crown Point and eventually set up a studio in Portland in the 1920s.

  • Crow, Samuel B.

    S. B. Crow is listed in a city directory as practicing in Vancouver, WA in 1903-1904. He may have moved from Astoria, Oregon because the mat for his photograph says he is in Astoria.

    • Description: View of harbor and town of Astoria, OR
      Dates: 1890
      Container: Box 2, Item Crow 1
      Location: Crow, Samuel B.

  • Cummings Bros.

    Cummings Bros. were active in Lewiston, Idaho.

  • Curlette, Edward B.

    Edward B. Curlette (1872-1952) came to Calgary, Alberta in 1899. He entered the photography business with his uncle, K.W. Snider, and in 1902 took over the studio. He worked in Calgary until 1946 when his building was destroyed by fire.

  • Currie, Neil

    Neil Currie (1842-1921) was an active traveling photographer from Minnesota.

  • Curtis, Edward S. & Guptil, Thomas H.

    Active as partners at 614 2nd St., Seattle, Washington, 1892-1897.

    Edward Curtis was born in Wisconsin. At about 1874, the family moved to Le Sueur County, Minnesota. As a teenager, he became interested in photography and built a camera using the book, Wilsons Photographics. In 1885, at age seventeen, he apprenticed with a photographer in St. Paul. After the family moved to the Seattle, Washington area in 1887, Curtis bought a partnership in the photographic studio of Rasmus Rothi. He left that business after about six months and formed a new partnership with Thomas Guptill, called Curtis and Guptill, Photographers and Photoengravers. In 1897, Curtis and Guptill parted ways and Curtis renamed the studio Edward S. Curtis, Photographer and Photoengraver. Curtis was known for photographing local Native American Indians.

  • Danner, Theodore D.

    Active in Heppner, Oregon, 1889-1891. He also partnered as Danner & Lubken, Pendleton, Oregon, 1903-1905; in Athena, 1907; and in Milton, 1911-1917.

  • Darling Studio

    Active in Ashland, Oregon.

  • Davidson, H.C.

    Homer C. Davidson was active as a commercial photographer at 905 Pike St., Seattle, Washington.

    He also partnered as Davidson & Averrett (Homer C. Davidson and Walter E. Averrett), at 611 D S Johnston Cp. Bldg., 1908.

    • Description: View of the Hotel Assembly building, 823 Madison St., Seattle, Washington

      Hotel Assembly is now the Madison Apartments building.

      Dates: 1920?
      Container: Box 2, Item Davidson 1
      Location: Davidson, H.C.
    • Description: Seattle Asian Art Museum aerial view
      Dates: 1933?
      Container: Box 2, Item Davidson 2
      Location: Davidson, H.C.
    • Description: Seattle Asian Art Museum exterior

      Written on verso: The Seattle Art Museum Volunteer Park. Bebb and Gould Architects opened July 1933.

      Dates: 1933?
      Container: Box 2, Item Davidson 3
      Location: Davidson, H.C.
    • Description: Construction materials at Wallace Bridge and Structural Steel Company, Seattle, Washington

      From accompanying material: Door Track for Sunnyville Hangar in Assembly Bay. Wallace Bridge and Structural Steel Company, Seattle Washington.

      Dates: 1933?
      Container: Box 2, Item Davidson 4
      Location: Davidson, H.C.
    • Description: Steel loaded into railway cars, Longview, Washington

      From accompanying material: Seven carloads of fabricated steel ready for shipment to Longview Bridge, Longview, Washington. Total 13,160 tons fabricated and erected under general contract by Wallace Bridge and Structural Steel Company, Seattle, Washington.

      Dates: 1933?
      Container: Box 2, Item Davidson 5
      Location: Davidson, H.C.
    • Description: Blangy's service and gas station station

      Written on verso: 919 Olive Way.

      Dates: 1933?
      Container: Box 2, Item Davidson 6
      Location: Davidson, H.C.

  • Davies, George W.

    Active at the corner of First and Taylor Streets, Portland, Oregon, 1879-1897. Circa 1897-1928 his studio was located at 3rd and Morrison Street, Portland, Oregon

    George W. Davies (1855-1929) was a photographer and a printer for F.G. Abell, 1879-1882. Davies operated the Davies Studio with his stepson, Clarence A. Defries, 1901-1925.

  • Davis, Ray

    Active at 302-3, Lloyd Bldg, Seattle, Washington, 1943.

  • Davis, Walter

    Davis Studio was active at the Southeast corner of Second and Blanchard, Seattle, Washington, circa 1888.

  • Deig, Andrew M.

    Deig (1879-1955), was a photographer and photo tinter, active at 415 6th Ave., Seattle, Washington.

  • DeLong & Drake

    • Description: Bennett's auto camp houses, Seattle, Washington
      Postcard
      Dates: 1929?
      Container: Box 3, Item DeLong 1
      Location: DeLong & Drake

  • Studio De Luxe

    Active in 230-1-2 Lumber Exchange, Centralia, Washington, 1908-1914.

    • Description: Studio portrait vignette of a seated young man wearing a suit, Centralia, Washington
      Dates: 1910?
      Container: Box 3, Item De Luxe 1
      Location: Studio De Luxe

  • Denman, A.H.

    Active at 500 National Bank of Com. Bldg., Tacoma, Washington.

    Denman is listed in The International annual of Anthonys photographic bulletin and American process year-book , Volume 14, 1902 as the Vice President of the Washington Camera Club, which was established May 18, 1900. The headquarters were located The Ferry Museum, Tacoma, Washington. Denman authored a book in 1924 titled The Name of Mt. Tacoma.

    Denman was instrumental in early documentation of Mount Rainier National Park, located in Pierce County, Washington. Denman Falls, was named after A.H. Denman by Ben Longmire.

    • Description: View of Professor Edmond S. Meany and two younger men in a forested camp area, Tacoma, Washington

      Professor Edmond S. Meany (1862-1935) was a historian, history professor, collector, a prolific writer, a prominent and popular civic leader who played a key role in the early history of the University and the region--perhaps the most influential and beloved figure of the Universities history. In 1894, Meany became the UWs first registrar while also holding positions as an instructor and secretary to the UW Board of Regents. In 1897, he became a full professor and head of the UW history department, teaching courses in forestry, American history, and Pacific Northwest history. He taught at the University of Washington from 1897 to 1932 and is known by many as "the father of the university." The Meany Hall for the Performing Arts is named after him. He was president of the Mountaineers from 1908-1935.

      Dates: between 1930 and 1940
      Container: Box 3, Item Denman 1
      Location: Denman, A.H.

  • Dennison Photo

    Dennison Photo was active at 120 ½ Wall Street, Spokane, Washington.

  • Denny, Orion O.

    Orion O. Denny, son of pioneers Arthur and Mary Ann Denny, was the first white boy born in Seattle.

    Cheshiahud was a Duwamish native and a Denny family friend. Better known as Lake Union John, he spoke Lushootseed and had a Lushootseed name. Cheshiahud and his wife Tleebuleetsa (also known as Madeleine) were the last Native Americans to live in the Seattle area. They lived in a small house next to Portage Bay at the foot of Shelby.

  • Depue, Earl B.

    Earl B. Depue was born in 1887 in Wisconsin. He was the president of Depue, Morgan & Company, Inc., active at 1117 Pine St., Seattle, Washington circa 1921.

    Depue also partnered with Calvin F. Todd, a commercial photographer in Washington, 1921.

    • Description: View down car lined street leading to the Green Building, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: 1917?
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Depue 1
      Location: Depue, Earl B.
    • Description: View of The Gables apartments at 16th & E. Harrison, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: 1917?
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Depue 2
      Location: Depue, Earl B.
    • Description: Houses on Capitol Hill at 307-9 Boylston N., Seattle, Washington
      Dates: 1917?
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Depue 3
      Location: Depue, Earl B.
    • Description: View of a house on First Hill, 1132 11th Ave., Seattle, Washington

      Written on photo: Depue 5025.

      Dates: 1917?
      Container: Box 3, Item Depue 4
      Location: Depue, Earl B.
    • Description: Bon Marche store window advertising Clows Waffle Flour, Seattle, Washington

      Stamped on verso of photo: Depue - Seattle, Denny Bldg.

      Dates: between 1917 and 1921?
      Container: Box 3, Item Depue 5
      Location: Depue, Earl B.

  • Depue Morgan & Company

    Depue Morgan and Company was active circa 1921- circa 1929. Earl B. Morgan was the president of the photography firm.

  • DeWeese, Dall

    William Dallas (Dall) DeWeese (1857-1928), was a hunter, naturalist, and author in Canon City, Colorado during the late 1800s. He spent three months in 1898 on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, in quest of large mammals (moose) for the United States Museum, and published cabinet card photographs he made while on that trip. He named Emma Lake, Alaska, for his wife Emma, the first woman hunter on the Kenai Peninsula, in the fall of 1898.

    • Description: DeWeese holding giant trophy rack of a moose, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

      Caption inscribed on photograph: One days sport. A record moose head of the world 69 inch spread killed in Alaska by Dall De Weese Canon City, Colorado, 1897. This photo might be a copy of the photo found at the Royal George Museum and Historical Center, Cañon City, Colorado.

      In May 1898, DeWeese received a letter from the Division of Biological Survey with the United States Department of Agriculture requesting that he return to Alaska to undertake a survey and complete a map showing the location of geographical features such as glaciers, rivers, and lakes of the Kenai Peninsula and to collect specimens of large mammals, which were later deposited in the United States Museum of Natural History (now the Smithsonian Institution) zoology/mammal collection. Two specimens collected by DeWeese became type specimens. Type specimens are specimens that are used as the definitive specimen for that particular species (all other specimens would be compared to the type specimen): Alces gigas (Miller, 1899) and Vulpes kenaiensis (Merriam, 1900) – a moose and a fox.

      Dates: 1897
      Container: Box 3, Item DeWeese 1
      Location: DeWeese, Dall

  • Dickinson Photo

    Active in Deering, Alaska.

  • Dingman Brothers

    Active in Seattle, Washington.

    Dingman Brothers studio was operated by Harry C. Dingman and Waldo H. Dingman in Seattle, Washington, 1902-1908.

    Harry and Waldo also worked out of their own separate studios in Seattle: Harry at 1209 ½ 2nd, and 218 ½ Columbia St., 1902-1904; and Waldo at 416 Epler Blk., and at 315 Shafer Bldg., 1904-1911. Waldo also partnered with Andrew Hamilton for Novelty Photo Co., 1901-1902.

    See also: Hamilton, Andrew L.

  • Dingman, Harry C.

    Active at 218 ½ Columbia St. and 1209 ½ 2nd, Seattle, Washington, 1902-1904.

    Harry also worked with his brother Waldo H. Dingman in Seattle, Washington, 1902-1908.

    See also: Dingman Brothers.

    Waldo also partnered with Andrew Hamilton for Novelty Photo Co., 1901-1902.

    See also: Hamilton, Andrew L.

  • Dix Photos

    The photographer was determined by looking at established Dix photographs and comparing the handwriting.

    • Description: Grays Harbor Commercial Company dining hall exterior, Cosmopolis, Washington
      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 3, Item Dix 1
      Location: Dix Photos
    • Description: Grays Harbor Commercial Company dining hall interior, Cosmopolis, Washington
      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 3, Item Dix 2
      Location: Dix Photos
    • Description: Grays Harbor Commercial Company dining hall interior full of diners, Cosmopolis, Washington
      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 3, Item Dix 3
      Location: Dix Photos

  • Dobbs & Fleming

    Beverly Bernett (B.B.) Dobbs (1868-1937) started a photography studio in Bellingham, Washington, in partnership with F.F. Fleming circa 1890-1891.

    B.B. Dobbs was active as a photographer and also was a pioneer in the emerging motion picture business in both Alaska and Washington State during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; he is believed to be one of the first individuals to have used motion picture film north of the Arctic Circle. Born Beverly Bennett Dobbs near Marshall, Missouri, he first learned photography in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1888, Dobbs moved to Bellingham, Washington, where he would operate a photography studio for twelve years (including a partnership with F.F. Fleming under the name Dobbs & Fleming between 1890-1891). Lured by the gold rush, Dobbs moved to Nome, Alaska in 1900, but ultimately found more success documenting life in Alaska as a photographer and film maker. By 1903, he had formed a partnership with A.B. Kinne. The Dobbs & Kinne studio in Nome offered photography services and photo supplies. Dobbs photographed scenes in Nome and the Seward Peninsula and made award-winning portraits of the Iñupiat people (more commonly referred to at the time as Iñupiats). Around 1909, he established the Dobbs Alaska Moving Picture Company, producing Atop of the World in Motion, a collection of travelogues. Just a few years later, Dobbs began to focus exclusively on film making. He sold his photography negatives to the Lomen Brothers (who later issued some of his work under their company name). By 1914, he had set up the Dobbs Totem Film Company in Seattle, Washington. Dobbs is listed as the cinematographer for A Romance of Seattle, a film shot in and around Seattle in 1919. During the 1930s, Dobbs photographed fish processing operations at Pacific American Fisheries (PAF) in the Fairhaven area of Bellingham.

    • Description: Studio portrait of two men, Bellingham, Washington

      Photo is a copy.

      Dates: between 1890 and 1891?
      Container: Box 3, Item Dobbs & Fleming 1
      Location: Dobbs & Fleming

  • Dollarhide, E.F.

    Active at the corner of Commercial and Washington St., Seattle, Washington. Before coming to Seattle, Dollarhide worked with George D. Morse in San Francisco, California.

  • Doody, Jerry (Jeremiah) D.

    Active in Whitehouse and Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada.

    Doody had a varied career including work for the Smithsonian Institution in Central America, the US Army in Texas in 1882 and as a Kansas cowboy. Doody was part of the 1898 stampede from California, and first worked with H.C. Barleys branch studio in Whitehorse.

  • Duckering, William

    Active in Olympia, Washington, 1895. Duckering also managed Wilses Seattle Photographic Company, 1900-1913.

    • Description: View of First Presbyterian Church and surrounding neighborhood from top of courthouse, Olympia, Washington
      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Duckering 1
      Location: Duckering, William

  • Duclos, Joseph E.N.

    Duclos (1863-1917) was active in Dawson, Yukon Territory, Alaska, 1899-1812. Duclos was originally from Quebec, but learned his photography skills in Maine. He and his wife moved to Dawson in 1898. He partnered with Per Edward Larss creating the photography firm of Larss & Duclos, 1899-1904. Duclos specialized in studio portraits while Larss roamed the streets and the gold fields. They sold views of the Chilkoot Pass, Dawson, and gold fields scenes taken in 1898, advertising Thousands of negatives in stockLarss and Duclos also sold film and supplies for amateurs. The firm was dissolved in 1904 when Larss married and left the Yukon. Duclos continued as a photographer in Dawson until 1912, when he sold his studio to E.O. Ellingsen. Duclos reported to Larss in 1905 that he was getting a fair share of the work although there was competition in the portrait business from Edward Adams and Mrs. Edith Goetzman. Joseph Duclos died of pneumonia after undergoing surgery in Alaska in 1917.

  • Dudley, Roger

    Roger Dudley was born in Brockton, Massachusetts and lived in Seattle starting in 1912. He was active at 1 Stuart Building and the Cobb Building, Seattle, Washington. He was the president of the newly formed Professional Photographer's Association of Washington, Commercial Division in 1947. Dudley had two sons with wife Stella, Roger Jr. and Jack. He died June 6, 1954. Roger Dudley Jr. continued in the commercial photography business under the same name as his father. In 1964, Roger Dudley Jr. merged studios with John Hardin and Chao-Chen Yang, forming Dudley, Hardin & Yang, Inc. located at 1921 Minor Avenue.

    See also PH 1298 Mid-Century Photographers.

    • Description: Denny Regrade along 5th Avenue, Seattle, Washington

      Written on verso: Denny School at left of picture.

      Dates: 1928
      Container: Box 3, Item Dudley 1
      Location: Dudley, Roger
    • Description: Exterior view of the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: between 1930 and 1940
      Container: Box 3, Item Dudley 2
      Location: Dudley, Roger

  • Durston

    Active in Seattle, Washington, 1916.

    • Description: Group of firemen at the No. 2 station watching their coworker playing checkers and cards while a couple of men read the newspaper, Seattle, Washington

      Caption on photo: A good game at no. 2, Seattle, July 22 - 1916.

      Dates: July 22, 1916
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Durston 1
      Location: Durston
    • Description: Firemen at the No. 2 station pulling on their clothes while one man is sliding down the pole for a midnight alarm, Seattle, Washington

      Caption on photo: Midnight alarm, No. 2., Seattle, July-22-1916.

      Dates: July 22, 1916
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Durston 2
      Location: Durston

  • DuVall, Charles M.

    Charles M. DuVall was born November 19, 1852 in Missouri. In 1853 his family moved to Portland, Oregon where he received his education. He became interested in photography when he was twenty years old and opened a photography studio in Goldendale, Washington. He was a well known Whitman County photographer and was elected Justice fo the Peace in 1890. Charles DuVall died September 18, 1913.

  • DuVall & Miller

    This was a partnership in a photography studio in Goldendale, WA. It may have been when Charles DuVall first started out in photography.

    • Description: Studio portrait of three women with three men in military uniforms
      Dates: between 1870 and 1880
      Container: Box 3, Item DuVall Miller 1
      Location: DuVall & Miller

  • Dyer, Spencer H.

    Active in Blaine, Washington, circa 1880s. Dyer also worked around Washington state including, Seattle and LaConner.

  • Earle, E.G.

  • Eastman

    Active at First and Jefferson Sts., Portland, Oregon. Most likely this is Prof. Gilman L. Eastman active in Portland, Oregon, 1887-1897. He later moved to Boise, Idaho. Records indicate that he was a disabled from volunteer civil war service as a Private, E. Company, 30th ME Infantry. Enlistment 19 July 1864 in Augusta, Maine and discharged 20 Aug. 1865 Savannah, Georgia.

  • Eastman, F.J.

    Active at First St., Cheney, Washington and Spokane County, Washington, circa 1884.

  • Edson

    Active in Everett, Washington.

  • Edwards Brothers

    Active 1891-1920 in Waterloo, Ontario, and later at 622 Cordova St. and 534 Cordova St., Vancouver, British Columbia.

    George William (b. 1867) and Edgar Herbert Edwards (1870-1947) worked as photographers in Waterloo, Ontario, and in 1891, moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. They were portrait photographers but also made landscape photos. George Edwards photographed in the Yukon Territory in 1898 during the Klondike gold rush. The firm was listed in the 1911 directory, and from 1911 to 1920 they concentrated on photographic supply and motion picture supply sales.

    Additional examples of their work may also be found in the book Edwards Brothers. Glimpses of Vancouver, B.C.

  • Egan, H.

  • Eggan

    Active in Seattle, Washington.

    The photographer was either James P. Eggan or Halvor P. Eggan (1854-1931), brothers who operated a studio called Eggan Brothers at 113 Marion St., between Front and Second, and 207 Pike St., Seattle, Washington, 1891-1895. Both men operated their own studios, 1890-1897.

    See also: Eggan Brothers

    See also: Eggan, James & Ericson, Carl.

  • Eggan Brothers

    Active at 113 Marion St., between Front and Second, and 207 Pike St., Seattle, Washington.

    Eggan Brothers included James P, Halvor P., and Sever P. Eggan. After 1900, Sever moved to Minneapolis.

    See also: Eggan.

  • Eggan, James & Ericson, Carl

    Active at 1516 ½ 1st Ave. and 1501 2nd Ave., Eitel Building, Seattle, Washington, circa 1901-1906

    Eggan & Ericson studio was operated by James P. Eggan and Carl Ericson, 1902-1906, Seattle, Washington. James P. Eggan also operated Eggan studio and Eggan Brothers studio in Seattle with his brother Halvor P. Eggan, 1891-1895, and his own studio, 1895-1897.

  • Elite Studios

    Several studios of this name were located in various cities across North America. The studio at 313 and 818 Riverside Ave., and 523 Eagle Building in Spokane, Washington, circa 1896-1932, was operated by Miss Margaret M. Foster (b. 1867) & Miss Minnie (M.K.) Wachtman (b. 1868), advertising Photographs of children a specialty. Other locations included San Francisco; Nanaimo, British Columbia; and possibly Juneau, Alaska; Omaha, Nebraska, and Atlantic City, New Jersey.

  • Ellis, W.D.

    Active in Colfax, Washington

  • Enderts Drug Store

    Active in Crescent City, California in the early part of the twentieth century

    • Description: Native American woman making baskets
      Dates: 1910?
      Container: Box 3, Item Endert1
      Location: Enderts Drug Store

  • English, H.

  • Description: Everybodys Gallery

    See Swick, Professor

  • Evans

    It is possible that this was Bob Evans, a Douglas, Alaska photographer.

  • Evans & Anderson

    It is possible that this was Bob Evans, a photographer in Douglas, Alaska.

    It is possible that this is the same Evans that created photograph Evans 1

  • Ewing, D.B.

    David B. Ewing was active at Rucker ave., Bayside, Everett, and in Anacortes, Washington, 1893-1903.

  • Eyerman, J.R.

    Staff photographer for John Hamricks Theaters and active at Broadway 1441, Tacoma, Washington. He was also Life Magazine's official Northwest photographer circa 1930s-1940s.

    He was married to artist and photographer Carol Eyerman, whose work appeared in Life and on 23 covers of Sunset magazine.

  • Faber

    Active at 16 Colonial Bldg., Seattle, Washington, and managed by Frank K. Brown, 1893-1894 and by W. Scott Hanks, 1894-1896.

  • Fern Studio

    • Description: Farmers loading beets into a truck, Toppenish, Washington

      Written on verso: Loading beets at Toppenish This is now done mechanically.

      Dates: between 1910 and 1920
      Container: Box 3, Item Fern Studio 1
      Location: Fern Studio

  • Field Studio

    Field Studio was located at 201 Northern Life Building, Seattle, Washington. The studio was bought by W.B. Fiske in 1919 but maintained the original studio name.

  • Finch, F.P.

    Active in Aberdeen, Washington.

  • Fink, Leonid

    Leonid Fink was born in Russia circa 1890. Fink moved to Seattle in 1919. He worked for Curtis Studio, Seattle until 1925 when he started his own studio at 308 White Building, Seattle, Washington. He was a known portrait photographer and photographed for the Seattle Times often through the 1920s-1950s. His fiancé, Ruth McDonald, was found dead January of 1929 in Spokane, Washington. Fink was detained while investigations were ongoing but was eventually released when her death was ruled a suicide. He died March 25, 1960 in Los Angeles, California.

    • Description: Man with glasses
      Dates: between 1930 and 1940
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Fink 1
      Location: Fink, Leonid
    • Description: Tall pillar in front of stone building
      Dates: between 1930 and 1940
      Container: Mapcase M267, Item Fink 2
      Location: Fink, Leonid

  • Finley, William

  • Fisher Studio

    Elliott L. Fisher was active in Ketchikan, Alaska, circa 1924-1930.

    The Fisher Studio motto was "We Photograph Anything, Anywhere". Fisher went to Ketchikan in 1924 and created studio portraits, as well as photographer for newspapers, magazines, travelogues, high school year books, and local advertisements. He traveled around the country and introduced the public to Alaska. His photos of canneries, cold storage plants, huge fishing fleets that drove the economy, downtown Ketchikan, masonry buildings that were replacing wooden, natural disasters, celebrations, parades, and lazy afternoons can be found in the book We Photograph Anything, Anywhere .

  • A.D. Fox & Son

    Active at 857 Main St. Pomeroy, and in Asotin, Washington.

    Almeron D. Fox (d. 1925) operated his studio, 1890-1925, and his son Jerry was in charge 1906-late 1920s. Jerry (d. 1952) was a talented musician and organized the Pomeroy Band. His own band, the Fox Orchestra, often played for the silent films shown at the Seeley Theatre. Jerry Fox's career was cut short when an accident damaged his eyesight.

  • Frank, Leonard

    Leonard Frank was born in 1871 in Oldenburg, Germany. He traveled to San Francisco, United States in 1892 in search of gold and in 1894 went north to Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Frank won a box camera in a local raffle and started taking photographs and in 1915 he established a photography business with his brother, Bernard, in Vancouver. The studio was located at 553 Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia. Leonard Frank photographed the lumber industry, scenery of mountains and buildings, as well as famous people such as the musician and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, and ballerina Anna Pavlova. In the 1920s he was among the first to create and sell color-tinted postcards to the public. He died February 23, 1944.

  • Franks & Romans

    • Description: Steamship Ohio at dock loading passengers for trip to Nome, Alaska

      Written on photo: All aboard for Nome.

      Typed on verso: About 30,000 persons leave Seattle every spring for Alaska an Yukon. nearly all of whome return in the Fall, although every year the permenent population gets larger. S.S. Ohio leaving Seattle for Nome.

      Dates: May 24, 1900
      Container: Box 3, Item Franks & Romans 1
      Location: Franks & Romans

  • French, E. Arthur (Happy)

    E. Arthur (Happy) French (1897-1962). Photographer Art 'Happy' French worked at the Seattle P-I from 1923 until his retirement in 1946. French (called Happy because he never looked it) was typical of newspaper photographers of his day in that he had little formal schooling and a strong nonconformist streak. Beginning his career at the P-I in 1923, French made a reputation for his trick photography and composite images. He was able to produce better snowstorm pictures than his rivals by splattering ink on his negatives. Known for his sassy remarks, when Romania's Queen Marie asked him, "Don't you ever shave?" he replied, "Say, I been following you for the last coupla days at 60 miles an hour; when d'ja think I'd have time to shave?" In 1943, he observed long line of children waiting to get into the department store across the street to see Santa Claus. He walked over and took a few photographs of the children and Santa Claus. The pictures became so successful the following year he took a leave of absence and sold his Santa Claus photographs for $1 a print. He ended up earning $10,000 in five weeks, commenting "What the hell, there is a Santa Claus." He retired from the PI in 1946 saying he had found a way to earn "three times the money in one-tenth the time." He was married to a Cherie Hernas, who died in 2000.

    • Description: Washington State University Commencement ceremony
      Dates: Jun 19, 1934
      Container: Box 3, Item French EA 1
      Location: French, E. Arthur (Happy)

  • Fujiwara, F.D.

    Active in Nome, Alaska, 1897.

    • Description: Group of Esquimaux on the maritime revenue cutter Bear deck.

      Fujiwara's photos document a voyage of the maritime revenue cutterBear to Point Barrow in that year. During the harsh winter of 1897-1898, Lieutenant David H. Jarvis of USRC Bear led a relief party to 265 whalers whose ships had been stranded in the ice off the northern coast of Alaska.

      Dates: 1897
      Container: Box 3, Item Fujiwara 1
      Location: Fujiwara, F.D.

  • Fuku, Mitsutaro, 1898-1965

    Mitsutaro Fuku came to the United States in 1922 where he worked in the dry goods business in Seattle. By the 1930s, he was very active as a photographer, exhibiting his work in Seattle (where he had a solo exhibition in 1935) and in photographic salons. In 1934 he became the director of the Seattle Photographic Society but he returned to Japan by 1936 and the next year had a solo exhibition there in Mitsukoshi department store. His work was published in Photographie 1936, a special issue of the magazine Artes et Metiers Graphiques dedicated to modern photography which published the work of leading photographers of the time. In 1940 he taught photography at Nihon University for one year. After World War II, Fuku ran a commercial photographic studio in Kyōbashi, Tokyo.

  • Fulton, A.S.

    Active in Port Townsend, Washington.

    Partnered with J.M. McMurry in Fulton & McMurry.

  • Gabbett, Cecil M.

    Active in Alaska.

    Gabbett (1882-1940) was a 2nd Lt. U.S. RCS at the time the following photographs were made. The USRC McCulloch was designated to enforce fur seal regulations in the vicinity of the Pribilof Islands August 9, 1906-1912. During these years of service in the Bering Sea patrol, she was especially well known because of her services as a floating court to the Alaskan towns.

    Gabbett was later a captain in the U.S. Coast Guard, 1920.

  • Gage, H. K.

    Herman Kimball Gage (1825- 1915) was born in Massachusetts, and was active in Aurora, Nevada, at Pine Street, c1863. He also operated a parlor at the corner of Church and Bridge (No. 1 Church Street) in Truckee, Nevada County, 1874-86. An 1894 Photographers' bulletin reported him missing and suffering from mental troubles. A July 1915 article in the Sacramento Union announced his suicide at the age of 90 by shooting himself. He was described as a "wealthy and respected old pioneer" who "retired from his photography business a few years ago."

  • Gardiner, Roswell H.

    Gardiner (also spelled Gardener), photographer and manager for the Great Eastern Photographic Advertising Co., Victoria, 1888; as well as, British Columbia, Oregon, and various locations in California, circa 1885-1900.

    In the "Local Notes," Democratic Times, Jacksonville, January 3, 1889, page 3: Two agents of the Great Eastern photo and advertising company, of which R. H. Gardiner is the manager, are in southern Oregon for a short time, making views along the railroad for advertising purposes. The company wants views of all residences and business places. They will show you the pictures and give you a chance to purchase some if you wish. They are sold in one-half dozen and one dozen lots at low rates. Give them a chance to show up your business.

  • Gardner, Paul

  • Gem Studio

    Frank E. Marshall was the proprietor and active at 1322 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, Washington, 1898-1912.

  • Gifford, Benjamin A.

    Benjamin A. Gifford (1859-1936) was born in DuPage County, Illinois. He apprenticed to William Latour in Missouri, photographers in Fort Scott and Chetopa, Kansas, 1883 and later opened his own studio. Gifford moved to Portland, Oregon, and opened a photo studio 1883-1895. He moved to The Dalles, Oregon, and was first a partner in the Gifford and Hale studio 1895-1899 and then alone between 1899-1910. He then moved back to Portland where he worked under several studio names including, Giffords Studio and Gifford and Prentiss Inc., 1910-1920. Gifford was well-known for his images of Native Americans, views of central Oregon and Portland areas, and was considered one of Oregons best landscape photographers documenting many scenes along the Columbia River.

  • Goetze, Otto D.

    Goetze was proprietor of Alaska Studio, active at 321 ½ Pike St., Seattle, Washington, and in Alaska, 1901-1912.

    • Description: View of construction grading down Second Ave., Seattle, Washington
      Dates: between 1897 and 1899
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Goetze 1
      Location: Goetze, Otto D.

  • Goodrich Studio

    Wilford F. Goodrich started work as a photographer in 1898 in Spring Valley, Wisconsin. He moved to Seattle in 1917 and worked for other photographers in the area until 1920 when he opened his own studio in a trailer located at 4236 University Way. Around 1934 he closed his shop and began working for the University of Washington making photograph identification cards for the students. He retired in 1957 but later opened a variety store located at 8058 Bothell Way. He died January 24, 1978.

    • Description: Suzzallo library and surrounding University of Washington, Seattle
      Dates: between 1917 and 1925?
      Container: Box 4, Item Goodrich 1
      Location: Goodrich Studio
  • Description: Gordon & McKenzie

    See MacKenzi Photo Co.

  • Grady, Martin A.

    Grady was active in Seattle from 1920-1925.

  • Graham, Samuel B.

    Samuel B. Graham began his career in Washington, but soon moved to east Portland, Oregon, where he promoted his landscape photography. He married a local woman, Mary Haner, in 1888 and opened a studio in Corvallis in 1889. By 1892, he had moved to Colorado Springs.

  • Grantham

    Active in Twisp, Washington, and this is possibly Mrs. N.E. Grantham, Pateros, Washington, circa 1901. She is a photographer listed in A Checklist of 19th Century Minnesota Women Photographers

  • Graves Studio

    Orrin E. Graves was the Graves Studio proprietor active in Pullman, Washington, 1925-1941.

  • Grohman, C.

    Active in Thane, Alaska.

    • Description: Warm Springs Bay near Thane, Alaska
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Box/Folder 4, Item Grohman 1
      Location: Grohman, C.
    • Description: Wooden walkway overlooking Warm Springs Bay near Thane, Alaska
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Box/Folder 4, Item Grohman 2a-b
      Location: Grohman, C.

  • Gylfe, Alex

    Alexander Gylfe was active in South Bend, Washington, circa 1901-1906.

  • Hadley, J.

  • Hadley, Urban P.

    Urban Pope Hadley (1852-1912) was active in Tacoma, Washington, circa 1890s-1911. Hadley arrived in Tacoma, Washington, in the 1880s, and later moved north to Lynden. He died in nearby Bellingham, 1912. His wife, Hattie, was also a photographer.

  • Haines, C.H.

    Active in North Yakima, Washington

  • Hale, Herbert A.

    Active in Oregon after working in San Diego, California (1888-1890). Hale started in Portland (1892-1894) before moving to The Dalles and partnering with Benjamin A. Gifford (1895-1899). He operated on his own until 1915. In 1916, Hale returned to Portland and partnered with Charles F. Redmond as Home Photographers (1916-1920).

  • Hall, A.W.

    Active in Nome, Alaska

  • Hall, Merch

    Active in Carbonado, Washington

  • Hall, M.F.

    Dr. M.F. Hall was a physician and surgeon in Tanana and Fairbanks, Alaska circa 1899-1915. He was often photographed treating patients and around hospitals.

  • Hamacher, Ephraim J.

    Ephraim J. Hamacher worked with Hilda Anderson in Ellensburg, Washington as Anderson & Hamacher circa 1885. Starting in 1888, he operated his own photographic business in both Ellensburg and Yakima, Washington. He was later active in Oregon from 1895 to 1898, and in Alaska in 1898 where he photographed people and activities related to the Klondike gold rush and became a well-known Whitehorse photographer, Yukon Territory, 1901-1912.

  • Hamilton, Andrew L.

    Andrew Lennox Hamilton partnered with Waldo H. Dingman for Novelty Photo Co. at 218 ½ and 308 ½ Columbia, Seattle, Washington in 1901-1902. Hamilton was also successor to Frank La Roche at 16 Colman Bldg., Seattle Washington, 1904.

    Hamilton Studio was active at multiple locations in the 811 First ave., Colman Bldg., Seattle, Washington from 1905-1918. He either opened a new location or moved to Tacoma 1919-1926.

  • Hann, Jay B.

  • Hansen, Andrew

    Active at 918 Tacoma ave., Tacoma, Washington from 1898-1899.

  • Hardy, Jonathan

    Active at 314 Pike St., Seattle, Washington, 1893-1895.

  • Harris, Kenneth

    Kenneth Harris was a library clerk interested in photography. He became a photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

  • Harrison

    Active in Spokane Falls, Washington.

    • Description: Colonel Granville Owen Haller, Louis Zeigler, Thomas Reed, and two other dignitaries, Spokane Falls, Washington

      Caption on mount: Spokane Falls, W.T. Handwritten on mount: G.O. Haller. Louis Ziegler. Thomas Reed.

      Haller was a fearsome military man, who after fighting the Seminoles in Florida and the Mexicans in Mexico City, first came to the Northwest in 1853 to hunt down and sometimes hang insurrecting Indians. In 1863, while fighting in the Civil War on the Union side, Haller, at a wine-tasting party with a few light-headed officers, made an imprudent but ambiguous remark that might have included Lincoln's name. A Navy man twisted the incident and caused Haller to be dismissed without a hearing for the "uttering of disloyal sentiments." Haller fled his "unjust disgrace," came West again and settled first on Whidbey Island to raise a family. It took him 16 years to gain, by joint resolution of Congress, "complete exoneration," and reinstatement with the rank of colonel. In those years he raised a sizable fortune on Puget Sound. A model of pioneer enterprise, he worked it all -- real estate, lumbering, farming, and general merchandising -- out of a Coupeville store front. The very well-off Granville Haller and his wife Henrietta lived together in their First Hill, Seattle "Castlemount" home for 14 years, until the colonels death in 1897.

      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 4, Item Harrison 1
      Location: Harrison

  • Harrison Brothers

    The Harrison Brothers were active in Juneau, Alaska, circa 1888-1900.

    Joseph Nicoll and Henry John Harrison came to Alaska to photograph the scenery, and for a time had a photography studio and dental clinic in Juneau.

    • Description: View of totem pole on a hill, probably Tlingit, Wrangell, Alaska

      Handwritten on verso: Wrangell. Harrison Bros. Juneau, Alaska.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 4, Item Harrison Bros 1
      Location: Harrison Brothers
    • Description: View across the water of UNS Navel warehouse and US Marine barracks, Sitka, Alaska

      Caption written on mount: Indian Town Sitka, UNS Navel warehouse/US Marine barracks.

      Dates: between 1888 and 1900?
      Container: Box 4, Item Harrison Bros 2
      Location: Harrison Brothers

  • Harsch, Howard A.

  • Hart Studio

    L.C. Whitney was the proprietor, and active at 1328 and 1332 2nd Ave., Seattle, Washington, 1920-1922.

  • Hartsook

    Active in Seattle, Washington

  • Harvey Brothers

    Active in Blaine, Washington. One of the partners could have been Thomas Harvey, a photographer who worked under his own name in Blaine between 1901-1902.

  • Hathaway, G.W.

    G.W. Hathaway was born in 1875 in Pennsylvania. He was married to Edith Hathaway. He was active in Leavenworth, Washington were he had a shop that included stationary, school supplies, a confectionary, and a soda fountain. The shop was up for sale in 1914. In 1887 he was a traveling librarian in Chelan County for Washington Territory's Department of Traveling Librarians. This program sent traveling librarians around with a small collection of books. He was an active member of the community including holding a position on the Leavenworth School Board in 1908 and was the manager of the Leavenworth Creamery.

    • Description: View of snow covered mountains, Leavenworth, Washington
      Dates: between 1880 and 1910?
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Hathaway 1
      Location: Hathaway, G.W.
    • Description: Town of Leavenworth and surrounding area
      Dates: between 1880 and 1910?
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Hathaway 2
      Location: Hathaway, G.W.
    • Description: Farmland with house, Leavenworth, Washington
      Dates: between 1880 and 1910?
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Hathaway 3
      Location: Hathaway, G.W.
    • Description: Railroad track and bridge, Leavenworth, Washington
      Dates: between 1880 and 1910?
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Hathaway 4
      Location: Hathaway, G.W.
    • Description: Field and mountains, Leavenworth, Washington
      Dates: between 1880 and 1910?
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Hathaway 5
      Location: Hathaway, G.W.

  • Hazard, Margaret

    Margaret Hazard, known as "Hazzie," was a Mountaineer and was married to Joseph T. Hazard. Joseph Hazard was the author of Snow Sentinels of the Pacific Northwest, a book that provided the history of the Cascade and Olympic Mountains, as well as descriptions of many trails in the area. He and his wife, Margaret were part of the Mountaineers and frequently took photographs when on outings.

    • Description: Davis Blockhouse, Whidbey Island

      Written on verso: By Mrs. Joseph T. Hazard, Whidbey Island Pilgrimages, 1932.

      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box 4, Item Hazard 1
      Location: Hazard, Margaret
    • Description: Ebey Blockhouse, Whidbey Island

      Written on verso: By Mrs. Joseph T. Hazard, Whidbey Island Pilgrimages, 1932.

      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box 4, Item Hazard 2
      Location: Hazard, Margaret

  • Hazeltine, Martin Mason

    Hazeltine (1827-1903) was active in Baker City, Oregon and operated Hazeltine's Excelsior Studio, circa 1880-1903. While living in Oregon, Hazeltine also traveled to Idaho and Nevada where he took stereoview scenes of the region became a respected "traveling photographer".

    Hazeltine was first active in several cities on the east coast around his home state of Vermont, including New York, Chicago, St. Charles, Illinois. In 1853 Hazeltine moved to San Francisco with his brother George Irving Hazeltine (1836-1918) and they operated a studio creating daguerreotype together till 1855. During his time in California Hazeltine also traveled around the state taking stereoview photographs documenting many places, including Yosemite Valley and the Sierra Butte Mine and was a highly respected pioneer photographer with extensive field work throughout the far West. Many of his views taken in the Mendocino area were later published by such firms as J. P. Soule and Lawrence & Houseworth.

    In 1888, Martin was assisted at fairs near Baker City by a young boy, Wesley Andrews, who later gained renown as a photographer and postcard marketer in the Northwest. Among photographers who worked for Martin Hazeltine in the 1890s were Miss Josephine Rea and Miss Rata Allen.

    Two of Martins children became photographers. Leland S. Hazeltine was offering his photography services in Joseph, Or., as early as 1884, and he is believed to have established himself in the photography business at Lakeview, Or. Viola Hazeltine, herself a photographer, married Roland T. Parker of Parkers Studio in Baker City and worked with her husband in the business under the name Parker Studio.

  • Hazen, Todd

    Active at Seneca 0313 - 2028 Terry, Seattle, Washington.

    Hazen was the 1921 vice president and 1923 president of the Associated Camera Clubs of America.

  • Heath, L.

    • Description: Snow covered dock and buildings of Port Gamble, Washington
      Dates: January 2, 1899
      Container: Box 4, Item Heath 1
      Location: Heath, L.
    • Description: View down tree-lined Rainier Ave., Port Gamble, Washington
      Dates: August 20, 1900
      Container: Box 4, Item Heath 2
      Location: Heath, L.
    • Description: View looking down on the saw mill and surrounding buildings of Port Ludlow, Washington

      Same view as item Heath 4.

      Dates: June 13, 1899
      Container: Box 4, Item Heath 3
      Location: Heath, L.
    • Description: View looking down on the saw mill and surrounding buildings at Port Ludlow, Washington

      Same view as item of Heath 3.

      Dates: April 24, 1900
      Container: Box 4, Item Heath 4
      Location: Heath, L.

  • Hegg, Peter L.

    Peter Hegg was the brother of Eric Hegg, the Klondike Gold Rush photographer. The brothers were originally from Sweden and Peter Hegg came to Washington in 1888. Eric Hegg started a photography studio in Bellingham, Washington in 1889, but sold it when he went to the Klondike to record the Gold Rush. Peter took over the Hegg studio when Eric left.

  • Heistand, J.G.

    Joseph Gonder Heistand was born in Strasburg, Pennsylvania on August 15, 1860. In 1900 he moved to Manitou Springs, Colorado and bought Ute Iron Springs near Pikes Peak. There he built a pavilion and hotel that attracted tourists. He was the official photographer of the Pikes Peak Railway. He owned a famous mineral shop in Manitou as well.

    • Description: People gathered around street car, Pikes Peak Cog Road, Colorado
      Dates: July 27, 1913
      Container: Box 4, Item Hiestand 1
      Location: Heistand, J.G.

  • Herrin, David C.

    Herrin (d. 1903) was active in The Dalles, Oregon, 1896.

    In 1888, the Southern Oregon Transcript reported that "Photographer D. C. Herrin, of Ashland, will open a gallery on Front Street" [Medford]. David C. Herrin, with his wife Margaret, also a photographer, ran a studio in The Dalles from 1892-1898. Moving to East Portland in 1899, the husband and wife team joined Frank G. Abell to form the Abell & Herrin Co.

  • Hetzel, Leo

    Active in Port Angeles, Washington, 1903-1906.

    Victor Leopold Hetzel (1877-1949), began toying with a box camera and photography at the age of 14. He traveled about the Pacific Northwest, after leaving school, and supported himself by shooting photos of proud loggers posing in forests. He moved to Southeastern California in 1910, and continued another 30 years of photography. particularly noted for his historical American frontier documentary style of photography. He created flattering photos of his subjects, and his wife and daughter often hand colored his desert-in-blossom scenes sold to Imperial Valley, California, residents.

  • Hileman, Tomar Jacob

    T.J. (Tomar Jacob) Hileman (1882–1945) was active at Glacier Park, Montana, photographing landscapes and the Blackfoot Indian people. After working in Chicago and graduating from Effingham School of Photography, he was a photographer in Colorado. In 1911 Hileman moved to Kalispell, Montana to open his own portrait studio. He and Alice Georgeson were the first couple to marry in Glacier National Park in 1913.

    Hileman was appointed the official photographer for the Great Northern Railway in 1924, and created photos of Glacier National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, moving bulky camera equipment by packhorse, even at times perching on a narrow ledge to get just the right image on film. He also photographed the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton, Alberta, which was built by the railway. In 1926 Hileman opened photo-finishing labs in both Glacier Park Lodge and Many Glacier Hotel, which were convenient for tourists who could drop off their film evenings and pick up their prints the next morning.

    • Description: View of an alpine Cedar tree overlooking the Glacier Park valley and river below, Kalispell, Montana

      Stamped on verso: Glacier Park Photo Shop. Photo supplies, flowers, framing. Glacier Park views a specialty. Number 9519- Alpine Cedar. This view is copyrighted by Hileman. Kalispell, Mont.

      Dates: 1926?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hileman 1
      Location: Hileman, Tomar Jacob
    • Description: Piegan Blackfeet man known as "Chief Two Guns White Calf", Glacier National Park, Montana
      Dates: between 1912 and 1915?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hileman 2
      Location: Hileman, Tomar Jacob
    • Description: Chief Weasel Tail, Glacier National Park, Montana
      Dates: between 1912 and 1915?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hileman 3
      Location: Hileman, Tomar Jacob
    • Description: Chief Bird Rattler, Glacier National Park, Montana
      Dates: between 1912 and 1916?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hileman 4
      Location: Hileman, Tomar Jacob
    • Description: Chief Heavy Breast, Glacier National Park, Montana
      Dates: between 1912 and 1916?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hileman 5
      Location: Hileman, Tomar Jacob

  • Hirschfeld, Alfred Cyril

    Active in Alaska and Atlin, British Columbia.

    Hirschfeld (1866-1926) worked the Alaska and Klondike towns in 1898, and moved to work in Atlin 1899. Hirschfeld's photo studio was destroyed in the August 1900 fire. He purchased the Atlin Claim in December 1900 and sold it the following year. Hirschfeld eventually settled in Vancouver, but appears not to have practiced professionally there. He married Marguerite Ethel Miller in Vancouver, 1902, and Hirschfeld became manager of the Atlin Lake Lumber Co. He later moved to San Francisco.

  • Hobbes Isaac N.

    Active in Tacoma, Washington, circa 1890s.

    • Description: People at the gate and in front of Ilwaco Beach Life Saving Station, Washington

      Ilwaco Beach Life Saving Station was built 1891. The station was first started in 1889 on a volunteer basis, and called the Ilwaco Beach station. On November 3, 1891, the ship Strathblane went aground near the station. The volunteer crew was unable to get their lines out to the ship, and seven people died. As a result of this, a decision was made to put the station on a full-time professional basis. It was later renamed the Klipsan Station. The station was one of several assigned to protect the area known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.

      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 4, Item Hobbes 1
      Location: Hobbes Isaac N.

  • Hodge, Maurice

    Maurice Hodge was active at 711 South West Ankeny Street in Portland, Oregon. He was a Sergeant in World War I and photographed some aspects of the war for the United States Army Signal Corps. After the war, in 1924, Hodge began working with Edgar B. Smith. They remain partners for a couple of years and then separated. Around the 1930s Hodge was a co-owner of Sawyer Commercial Studios in Portland, Oregon along with Harold J. Graves and Edwin E. Mayer. Sawyer Commercial studios was active until about 1948.

    • Description: Fisherman netting a fish near Portland, Oregon

      Printed on verso: Ready for the net. A big Cutthroat over on his side after five minutes of giving everything he had. This shot was made on a stream a scant hour from Portland, Oregon.

      Stamp on verso for Maurice Hodge Commercial Photography 711 S.W. Ankeny Street Phone Beacon 0300. Portland, Oregon.

      Dates: 1934?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hodge 1
      Location: Hodge, Maurice

  • Hoffman, J.P.

    Active in Chiwaukum, Washington, circa 1880's.

  • Hofsteater, Orlando M.

    Active at Christs Block, Vancouver, Washington, circa 1885 and operated Hofsteater Photograph Gallery through circa 1901-02.

    • Description: View of men marching in military parade across a field at Fort Vancouver, Washington
      Dates: 1885?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hofsteater 1
      Location: Hofsteater, Orlando M.
    • Description: View of military parade at Fort Vancouver, Washington
      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hofsteater 2
      Location: Hofsteater, Orlando M.
    • Description: View of a military drill with men running and men on horseback at Fort Vancouver, Washington

      Caption on verso: Property of Thos. M. Anderson, Colonel of the 14th Inf., U.S. Army. Vancouver Bks., 1886-1898

      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hofsteater 3
      Location: Hofsteater, Orlando M.
    • Description: Studio portrait of Colonel Lewis Hunt, Vancouver, Washington

      Handwritten on verso: Colonel Lewis Hunt (d. 1886). Infantry 14th. U.S.A. Colonel Hunts death at Vancouver Barracks resulted in Colonel T.M. Andersons being sent as his successor, 1886-1898, as Colonel of the 14th U.S. Infantry, which he built up into a first-rank regiment.

      Hunt started his military career as Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1843 and rose through the ranks while serving in the War with Mexico, 1847-48, frontier duty at Ft. Humboldt, Cal., 1853-54, — and Scouting against Trinity River Indians, and Captain, 4th Infantry, May 23, 1855 in the March to Washington Territory, 1858, — Ft. Steilacoom, 1858‑59, — San Juan Island, Wash., 1859-60, — Ft. Steilacoom, 1860, — Ft. Townsend, 1860‑61, — and Ft. Terwaw, Cal., 1861. served during the Rebellion of the Seceding States, 1861-66: in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., Feb. 1 to Mar. 10, 1862; in the Virginia Peninsular Campaign (Army of the Potomac), Mar. to June, 1862, being engaged in the Siege of Yorktown, Apr. 5 to May 4, 1862, — and Battle (Colonel, 92d New York Volunteers, May 21, 1862) of Fair Oaks, May 31 to June 1, 1862, where he was severely wounded. He continued to command regiments in battles around the U.S. and returned to Vancouver Barracks, W. T., to Nov. 16, 1885. He was transferred to light duty at San Diego Barracks, Cal., to Aug., 1886; and at Ft. Union, N. M., and died Sep. 6, 1886.

      Dates: between 1880 and 1886
      Container: Box 4, Item Hofsteater 4
      Location: Hofsteater, Orlando M.
    • Description: Studio portrait of Colonel Thomas McArthur Anderson standing, Portland, Oregon

      Written on verso: General Thomas McArthur Anderson of Portland. While Colonel of the 14th U.S. Infantry at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, 1886-98.

      Anderson (1836-1917) began his military career as Private, Co. A, 6th Ohio Infantry, 20 Apr to 15 May 1861. He rose through the ranks and was promoted to Lt Colonel, 9th US, 20 Mar 1879. After his appointment with the 14th U.S. infantry, he was appointed Brig General of Volunteers, 4 May 1898; Major General of Volunteers 13 Aug 1898 (honorably discharged from Volunteers 12 June 1899); Appointed Brig General, USA (Regular Army), 31 Mar 1899 and finally retired 21 Jan 1900.

      Dates: 1886?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hofsteater 5
      Location: Hofsteater, Orlando M.
    • Description: View of men, horses, and carriages on Main Street, Vancouver, Washington
      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hofsteater 6
      Location: Hofsteater, Orlando M.
    • Description: View of the Institute for Defective Youth, Vancouver, Washington

      Written on verso: State School for Defective Youth at Vancouver, Washington.

      This school was renamed Washington State School for the Blind.

      Dates: 1890?
      Container: Box 4, Item Hofsteater 7
      Location: Hofsteater, Orlando M.

  • Horton, George D.

    Gilbert D. Horton (1853-1936), partnered with Lewis from Stanwood and operated the Palace Floating Gallery, Snohomish, 1884-1886. Horton operated alone it until 1888. On September 1, 1888, The Eye reported, “Horton has sold his floating gallery to a Seattle gentleman who will take it to Stanwood next week.”

  • Howard, Mart Albert

    Mart Albert left his home in Webster, Massachusetts in October of 1897 in search of gold. His travels brought him to Alaska and north to Dawson, Yukon Territory. He operated a mine for a short period until 1905 when he returned to Massachusetts.

  • Hoyt, Hiram

    Active at Mill St. Seattle, Washington, 1876-1878. Hoyt worked as a photographer in California, 1873-1875, before operating his studio in Seattle, Washington. He later moved to Texas where he worked as a photographer until 1899.

  • Hunt, Harriet Elizabeth

    Harriet Elizabeth (Frost) Hunt, (Lizzie), (1865-1934) was active in Ketchikan, Alaska, 1898-1934.

    Harriet and her daughter Bertha Hunt Wells were the first female photographers in the territory. Harriet and her husband Forest Joseph Hunt moved from Washington to Wrangall, Alaska, in 1898. She immediately took over the operation of a small café, the Blue Front. She was very popular for her lemon pies. The family moved to Ketchikan in March, 1900. When the family was settled in Ketchikan, Harriet Hunt opened a photo studio and gallery in the family store. The Hunt store was one of the first to recognize the need to serve the visitor trade as well, making postcards and even putting Harriet's photos on china souvenirs. She took hundreds of photos over the next few years, but then gave up photography over concerns about working with the chemicals and the physical exertion of lugging the big camera back and photographic plates back and forth. Their pet black bear could sometimes be seen waiting out side their meat store on Front Street. Lizzie founded the Lyceum club which became the library board and would serve on it for the rest of her life. She would also found the women's Chamber of Commerce and be active in local lodges and other groups. Forest was Ketchikan’s mayor, an active community leader, and State Legislator. They owned Hunt’s Book and Novelty Store where you could “buy almost everything you want”. The store was a very popular stop for visitors and locals. It closed in 1954.

  • Hutchins, C.C.

  • Description: Imperial Studio

    Active in Seattle, Washington.

    See Rothi, R.P., and Rothi R.P. & Curtis, Edward S.

  • Ives, William

    Active at 1128 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, Washington. Ives partnered with Harry S. Hover, operating Ives & Hover, circa 1895. Ives then worked at the Lick Gallery (1896-1898).

  • Jackson, Albert L.

    Albert Jackson was born in Knoxville, Iowa on April 4, 1856. In 1862 his family traveled to Eugene, Oregon where he opened a photograph studio in 1876 and was active there and in Portland, Oregon until circa 1885. He moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1885. Jackson was active at 919 C. St. Paris Panel and 1021 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, Washington, 1891-1918. In 1897 he won the top prize in the state photograph exhibit. Jackson and Edward D. Johnston operated together as Jackson & Johnston, 1911. He died September 26, 1922.

  • Jackson Photo Studio

    O. Seti and Y. Matsuda operated the Jackson Photo Studio, active at 624 Jackson, Seattle, Washington.

    J.M. Amano was a photographer at the Jackson Photo Studio, Seattle, Washington, circa 1919-1925.

    See also: Amano, J.M.

    • Description: Large group portrait of the Young Peoples Christian Convention outside the Japanese Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box 5, Item Jackson Studio 1
      Location: Jackson Photo Studio
    • Description: Large group portrait of Japanese American students in front of Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: February 25, 1939
      Container: Box 5, Item Jackson Studio 2
      Location: Jackson Photo Studio
    • Description: Large Group portrait of the Japanese American womens group Fuyo-Kai, standing in the Sylvan Grove at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: May 22, 1939
      Container: Box 5, Item Jackson Studio 3
      Location: Jackson Photo Studio
    • Description: Large group of Japanese participants in the 4th annual Northwest Young Buddhist Federation conference in Wapato, Washington in front of the Buddhist Temple building

      Written on photo: 4th Annual N.W.Y.B.F. Conference

      Dates: March 23-24, 1935
      Container: Box 5, Item Jackson Studio 4
      Location: Jackson Photo Studio
    • Description: Large group portrait at Japanese wedding

      Japanese writing on photograph mount.

      Dates: 1935?
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Jackson Studio 5
      Location: Jackson Photo Studio
    • Description: Group portrait of Japanese men in uniforms in front of the Forestry Building, University of Washington

      Japanese writing on photograph mount.

      Dates: between 1911 and 1931
      Container: Box 5, Item Jackson Studio 6
      Location: Jackson Photo Studio

  • Jackson William Henry

  • Jackson William P.

    William Jackson was born in London, England and moved to the United States in 1850. Active at Pacific Ave. and the corner of 11th St., Tacoma, Washington, circa 1887-1908. Jackson also worked in Sunnyside, Washington, circa 1905.

  • Jacobs, Curtis

    Jacobs (d. 1948) was active in Nome, Alaska.

  • Jacobson, Edward I.

    Active in Bellingham, Washington, circa 1905.

  • Jacobson, Leo M.

    Leo M. Jacobson graduated from the University of Washington in 1935. In the 1940s he was working at the University of Washington as a senior officer in the Veterans Administration training office.

    • Description: Suzallo Library, University of Washington, Seattle
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 5, Item Jacobson L. 1
      Location: Jacobson, Leo M.

  • James, E.E.

    Active in Roslyn and North Yakima, Washington, circa 1885-1904.

  • James & Bushnell (James, Eli M. & Bushnell, Corry A.)

    The James & Bushnell studio was operated by Eli M. James & Corry A. Bushnell in Seattle, Washington, 1903-1922. James was also partnered with Sidney M. Merrihew in Seattle and Tacoma between 1919-1926. Bushnell previously worked in Ellensburg, 1891-1895.

    See also: Bushnell, Corry A. (1866-1941).

  • James & Merrihew

    Active in Seattle near Pike and 1st St., and Tacoma, Washington.

    James & Merrihew ran a great promotion in 1930. They had a baby photo exhibit, free to visit. Visitors would vote on the cutest baby. And during the exhibit they also had visitors pose their babies for free to be in the next photo contest.

  • Jeffers Art Studio

    Owned by Joseph (Joe) Jeffers and operated in Olympia, Washington, 1903-1975.

    After graduating from Olympia High School Joe apprenticed with his old friend and photographer A.D. Rogers, working along side Rogers' own son. After completing a year of Business College Joe struck out on his own. As Darius Kinsey was covering the upper Sound region, Jeffers worked the camps of the southern Sound. He was a traveling photographers, going town to town making photographs at any opportunity, as well as a salesman and technician, cleaning, repairing and trading the " Kodaks" (as cameras were then called). Joe was capturing the early development of the Pacific Northwest and its people. His wife, Opal, learned from him to both take photos and process them, she also became a very talented photographer and hand-colorist.

    Jeffers purchased an art studio located on the southeast corner of 5th Avenue and Washington Street and established Jeffers Art Studio in 1903. They soon became the photographers of choice for the Society Set in the entire region. Jeffers Studios motto was: Ars Gratia Artis; Art for Arts Sake (also the motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Which, to an working artist, serves as a reminder.colorist. Jeffers

    By 1913 they were had a new building designed especially for their photographic arts. It was the first one of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. The Jeffers Studio building, designed by their good friend, the young architect Joseph Wohleb, just from California. Especially unique is the buildings large sloping skylight on its north side, which allowed in the beautiful northern light that artists covet. On the Olympia Heritage Register of Historic Properties, this Mission Revival style beauty stands today as a monument to both artists - Jeffers and Wohleb on the SE corner of historic 5th Avenue at Washington Street, just north of the Washington Center for the Performing Arts downtown Olympia, Washington. Jeffers fell to his death at age 45 while climbing a dangerous ice chimney on the Jeffers Glacier on the Olympic mountains.

    • Description: Group portrait of the Washington State Bar graduates, Olympia, Washington

      Written on mount, front row left to right: A.L. Black, A.D. H. Jackson, A.E. Graham, J.P. Stanford, J. Sommer, P.R. Herby. Center row: Ove Malling (O.M.) Nelson, L.J. Bounds, William D. Askren, Lawrence Bogle, E.G. Lumpe. Back row: George Olson, C.E. Harford, P.M. Troy, M. Bridges.

      Dates: 1908
      Container: Box:oversize 11, Item Jeffers Art Studio 1
      Location: Jeffers Art Studio
    • Description: James I. Davidson seated at office desk, possibly at Sunset Life Insurance Co., Olympia, Washington
      Dates: between 1950 and 1970?
      Container: Box 5, Item Jeffers Art Studio 2
      Location: Jeffers Art Studio
    • Description: Hallway with secretary seated at desk, possibly at Sunset Life Insurance Co., Olympia, Washington
      Dates: between 1950 and 1970?
      Container: Box 5, Item Jeffers Art Studio 3
      Location: Jeffers Art Studio
    • Description: Room with desks, possibly at Sunset Life Insurance Co., Olympia, Washington
      Dates: between 1950 and 1970?
      Container: Box 5, Item Jeffers Art Studio 4
      Location: Jeffers Art Studio
    • Description: Breakroom with chairs and tables, possibly at Sunset Life Insurance Co., Olympia, Washington
      Dates: between 1950 and 1970?
      Container: Box 5, Item Jeffers Art Studio 5
      Location: Jeffers Art Studio
    • Description: Stairway and waiting area, possibly at Sunset Life Insurance Co., Olympia, Washington
      Dates: between 1950 and 1970?
      Container: Box 5, Item Jeffers Art Studio 6
      Location: Jeffers Art Studio
    • Description: Exterior of building, possibly Sunset Life Insurance Co., Olympia, Washington
      Dates: between 1950 and 1970?
      Container: Box 5, Item Jeffers Art Studio 7-Jeffers Art Studio 10
      Location: Jeffers Art Studio
    • Description: Group of judges in front of the door
      Dates: between 1950 and 1970?
      Container: Box 5, Item Jeffers Art Studio 11
      Location: Jeffers Art Studio

  • Jeffers, Joseph

    Active in Olympia, Washington

    • Description: A large pile of trees in a clear cut field around Cloverfield farm with General Hazard Stevens standing far in the distance, Washington

      Hazard Stevens (1842-1918) was the son of the first governor of Washington Territory, and worked in law and for the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. He served in the Civil War and received a Medal of Honor. Stevens was one of the first to ascend Mt. Rainier, in 1870.

      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 5, Item Jeffers J. 1
      Location: Jeffers, Joseph
    • Description: General Hazard Stevens and 2 other men standing next to a large pile of trees in the clear cut field around Cloverfield farm, Washington

      Hazard Stevens (1842-1918) was the son of the first governor of Washington Territory, and worked in law and for the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. He served in the Civil War and received a Medal of Honor. Stevens was one of the first to ascend Mt. Rainier, in 1870.

      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 5, Item Jeffers J. 2
      Location: Jeffers, Joseph

  • Jenny, Joseph

    Active in Mt. Angel, Oregon, 1903-1917.

  • Johnson, Albert J.

    Johnson (1880-1926) was active in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1905-1914. The Johnson Studio and camera shop was first located at 290 lst Avenue, and later moved to 3rd Avenue near Cushman Street. In 1914 the family moved to McKinleyville, California, and later to Oakland where he operated a successful portrait gallery. He briefly lived in Nenana, Alaska, 1916-1918, and was one of the official photographers for the Alaska Engineering Commission and worked on a special assignment, documenting the very beginnings of the town of Nenana. Johnson documented Iñupiat life near Nome, walrus hunting, village activities and modes of travel by coastal Natives.

  • Johnson, John L.

    Active at 1516 ½ First ave., circa 1906-10; 314 Liberty Bldg., 1912-1919; 314 Yale Bldg., circa 1920; 519 Hinckley Bldg., 1921-1925, Seattle, Washington.

  • Johnson, Walter H.

    This is possibly Johnson from Alaska, who was involved with the Iñupiat and Reindeer population. He participated in writing a Report on the work of the Bureau of Education for the natives of Alaska, 1914-1915.

  • Johnston & Co.

    This photography studio was possibly in San Francisco in the 1910s.

  • Jones Photo Company

    The studio was located in Aberdeen, Washington. Bliss B. Jones opened the studio in 1914. Jones' father owned photo studios as well and his son continued the family business. The studio was located at 1918 Simpson Ave, Aberdeen, WA 98520.

  • Joy Parlor Studio

    Active at 207 2nd SO., Seattle.

    Printed on verso: The home of the cowboy post cards.

  • Judd, Charles L.

    Charles L. Judd was born in 1856 to Edwin and Rosina Judd in Waupun, Wisconsin. His family moved to Minnesota in 1867. Judd moved to Washington in 1900 and lived in Everett and Tacoma before moving to Anacortes where he opened a photograph studio. He specialized in portrait and Puget sound Landscape photography. Every summer from 1926-1930 Judd became the Official Photographer for the Cascade Pass Highway Commission. Judd died June 9, 1936.

  • Judkins, Joseph C.

    It is not confirmed that these photos were made by Joseph C. Judkins, but the dates are not compatible with David R. or the other photographers named Judkins in the Seattle area.

    Joseph C. Judkins worked as a photographer in Seattle during the years 1891-1902. His studio was located at various locations along 2nd and 3rd Avenues.

  • Jukes, Mark Frederick

    Mark Frederick Jukes (1878-1971) lived and worked in Bellingham, Washington for 76 years. His studio was located in the Sunset Building, Bellingham.

  • Juleen, J.A.

    J.A. Juleen Studio was an Everett commercial photo studio, 1908-1954, first in the hands of John Juleen (1874-1935) and, following John’s death, under the ownership of his wife Lee, Lena Dalquist Juleen, who died in 1955.

    Juleen opened his first photo studio in Everett’s Colby building, located on the southwest corner of Hewitt and Colby. Later Juleen Studios were located in the Eclipse Building at 2810 Colby in 1912; 1709 Hewitt Avenue, circa 1921; and 2930 Rockefeller in 1923. For a time, Lee Juleen operated the studio in Everett’s Bon Marche building.

  • Juris, Ed

    • Description: Rail lines in entryway of mine

      Typed on verso: Permanent timbering in 13th East entry, No. 5 Mine. Note stumps from removed temporary timbering on low side.

      Dates: between 1930 and 1940
      Container: Box 5, Item Juris 1
      Location: Juris, Ed

  • Kautz, Ira. A

    Ira A. Kautz was active at 912 2nd St., Seattle, Washington, 1893-1910.

    Kautz partnered with Harry F. Roberts, for Roberts & Kautz, Seattle, Washington, 1892-1893. He partnered with Kinsey, (possibly Darius Kinsey), 1893-1895. He also partnered with Frank C. Plummer at the Sterling Studio, Seattle, Washington, 1895-1898. He was also active in Roslyn, Washington, 1903-1910.

    See also: Plummer, Frank C.

    See also: Kinsey & Kinsey

    • Description: Studio portrait of woman wearing pierced earrings, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: 1895
      Container: Box 5, Item Kautz 1
      Location: Kautz, Ira. A

  • Kautz & Kinsey

    Ira A. Kautz & Kinsey were active at 912 2nd St., Seattle, Washington, 1893-1895.

    Kautz partnered also with Harry F. Roberts, Roberts & Kautz, Seattle, Washington, 1892-1893; and with Frank C. Plummer at the Sterling Studio, Seattle, Washington, 1895-1898. He was also active in Roslyn, Washington, 1903-1910. This Kinsey brother is possibly Darius Kinsey, brother to Clarence and Clarke Kinsey who were active photographers in Alaska. Darius Kinsey was active in Seattle and Sedro Woolly, Washington 1903-1917.

    See also: Plummer, Frank C.

    See also: Kinsey & Kinsey

    • Description: View of loggers driving a team of oxen pulling logs through the forest, Washington
      Dates: 1895
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Kautz & Kinsey 1
      Location: Kautz & Kinsey

  • Kellerman, E.

    Active at Main Street, Montessano, Washington, circa 1889.

  • Kelly, Millard F.

    Active at 1111 E. Street, Tacoma, Washington, 1890-1894. Kelly also worked for the Cresent Gallery. Kelly was killed by a train outside of Tacoma in January of 1911.

  • Kennell-Ellis

    Active at the Kennell-Ellis Studio, 1280 Willamette St., Eugene, Oregon.

    • Description: View of the S. P.M. W. 1950 Jordan Spreader train on the cascade line clearing snow from the tracks at the Cascade summit, Oregon

      Written on verso: Cascade Summit:- Jordan Spreader clearing yard tracks. winter of 1927.

      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 5, Item Kennell-Ellis 1
      Location: Kennell-Ellis
    • Description: View of a man looking at the snow covered cascade line railroad tracks and portal of tunnel, Cascade Summit, Oregon

      Written on verso: Cascade Line: 1927. Cascade Summit. Snow at portal of tunnel on wye track.

      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 5, Item Kennell-Ellis 2
      Location: Kennell-Ellis
    • Description: View of man looking west over the snow covered cascade line train tracks, Cascade Summit, Oregon

      Snow in cut just east of Abernathy.

      Dates: March 1, 1927
      Container: Box 5, Item Kennell-Ellis 2
      Location: Kennell-Ellis

  • Kilbourne, Edward Corliss

    Edward Corliss Kilbourne was born in Vermont on January 12, 1856. He grew up in Aurora, Illinois. After graduating from high school he studied dentistry under his father and joined the practice until 1880. His relative, Corliss P. Stone was Seattle mayor in 1872. Edward moved to Seattle in 1883. In 1888 Edward began promotion of the northern part of Seattle, the Fremont area. Along with other developers and businessmen, Edward championed electric transportation and trolleys to the new neighborhoods of Fremont and Greenlake. In 1892 he became owner of the Union Electric Company that provided electric lighting to the city of Seattle. Edward Corliss Kilbourne died on August 15, 1959.

  • King

  • Kinnear, Charles

    Charles A. Kinnear was born in Metamora, Illinois, on March 22, 1868. He came to Seattle with his parents, George and Rebecca Kinnear in 1878. He graduated from the original location of the University of Washington in 1888. He then earned a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1890. He returned to Seattle and started a law office that he operated for three years. In 1901 he was part of the inaugural meeting of the Amateur Photographic Club of Seattle. The meeting was held at the Young Naturalist Hall in March of 1901.

  • Kinsey & Kinsey

    Clarence and Clark Kinsey were brothers of Darius Kinsey. They left for the Klondike in 1898 and settled in Grand Forks, otherwise known as Bonanza. Here they built a cabin and filed a claim in nearby Gold Hill. Initially working out of a tent, it was almost four years before they could afford a permanent wood framed building. With their photographic equipment they did a substantial amount of portrait work and also had photographs appear in publications, brochures and pamphlets advertising goods for miners and describing the Klondike to outsiders. They were the official photographers for the Seattle & International Railway which was active under that name from 1896-1901 in Snoqualmie, Washington. Their partnership dissolved in 1906, when Clark Kinsey and his wife left for Seattle.

    See also: Kautze and Kinsey.

    Clark and Darius went on to document the logging industry. [See Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection].

    • Description: View down the mountain towards the mining town Bonanza, Yukon Territory, Alaska
      Dates: 1903
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Kinsey & Kinsey 1
      Location: Kinsey & Kinsey
    • Description: Clarke Kinsey standing in the snow with a four dog sled team, Bonanza, Yukon Territory, Alaska
      Dates: 1903?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Kinsey & Kinsey 2
      Location: Kinsey & Kinsey
    • Description: Group photo of Clarence Kinsey and friends with musical instruments outside on log cabin porch, Eldorado, Yukon Territory, Alaska

      Written on photo: Berey [sic] Brothers. Clarence & friends [sic]. Eldorado Y.T, Kinsey and Kinsey. Photo 1903 [sic].

      Dates: between 1898 and 1901?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Kinsey & Kinsey 3
      Location: Kinsey & Kinsey
    • Description: People outside lumber processing building, one man holding large saw blade

      Verso has information on ordering Kinsey & Kinsey Washington Forrest photographs.

      Dates: 1903?
      Container: Box 5, Item Kinsey & Kinsey 4
      Location: Kinsey & Kinsey
    • Description: Lumber workers in front of equipment, Ericson Bros, No 10 camp
      Copy print

      Printed on photo: Ericson Bros, No 10, Eldorado.

      Dates: between 1898 and 1906?
      Container: Box 5, Item Kinsey & Kinsey 5
      Location: Kinsey & Kinsey
    • Description: Lumber workers with shovels in front of equipment, Ericson Bros, No 10 camp
      Copy print

      Printed on photo: Ericson Bros, No 10, Eldorado.

      Dates: between 1898 and 1906?
      Container: Box 5, Item Kinsey & Kinsey 6
      Location: Kinsey & Kinsey
    • Description: Women seated atop a tree stump on wooden chairs with man and woman seated in front of stump

      Written on photo: Enjoying a pleasant evening in Washington Fir Stumps No 928.

      Dates: 1897
      Container: Box 5, Item Kinsey & Kinsey 7
      Location: Kinsey & Kinsey
    • Description: People in front of large tree

      Written on photo: Largest Tree in Washington Circumference 100 feet. Vicinity Snoqualmie Falls-Four miles northbend In Sec.8-T-23-R-9-E. No 880.

      Dates: 1896
      Container: Box 5, Item Kinsey & Kinsey 8
      Location: Kinsey & Kinsey
    • Description: Pile of dead salmon awaiting canning

      Written on photo: 50000 Salmon for Sammamio Cannery near Blaine Wash. No 380.

      Dates: 1896
      Container: Box 5, Item Kinsey & Kinsey 9
      Location: Kinsey & Kinsey
    • Description: Prospectors and horses in the forest, Mount Baker

      Written on photo: Prospecting party for Mount Baker No.990.

      Dates: 1896?
      Container: Box 5, Item Kinsey & Kinsey 10
      Location: Kinsey & Kinsey

  • Kirk, Daniel W.

    Active at Room 14-Scheuerman Block, Seattle, Washington. In 1897 Kirk opened a studio in partnership with Anders Beers Wilse, a Norwegian engineer, surveyor, and photographer who documented the construction of the Great Northern Railroad as well as the Klondike Gold Rush. After only six months, Kirk sold his portion of the studio to Wilse.

  • Kirk, George W.

    George W. Kirk (1848-1919) apprenticed under the Baltimore photographer, William Chase, and later set up a studio in Huntington, West Virginia. After 13 years he left to become a raspberry farmer in Washington State. Kirk resumed photography in 1896 and opened a studio in Everett, Washington, 1898. Later he operated an additional branch studio in Arlington, Washington, 1901-06, and left the Everett studio to be operated by his son, T. Leston Kirk partnered with Loren H. Seely. They opened another studio in Snohomish. The Arlington and Snohomish studios were closed after George Kirk had a stroke in 1906 and retired.

    • Description: Haley & Sisco Logging Company workers in the forest next to flatcar piled with logs, Marysville, Washington

      Kirk Photo, Everett is written on the end of one of the logs.

      Dates: 1896?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Kirk G. 1
      Location: Kirk, George W.
    • Description: Haley & Sisco Logging Company workers in the forest piling logs onto flatcar, Marysville, Washington
      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Kirk G. 2
      Location: Kirk, George W.
    • Description: Two logging workers standing next to an old growth large cedar stump and newly fallen log, Marysville, Washington

      Caption on photo: Cedar log and stump, 76 feet cir.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Kirk G. 3
      Location: Kirk, George W.
    • Description: Two men laying in a large fir tree cut with three additional men standing around the tree, Marysville, Washington

      Caption on photo: "Two Men in Cut." Big Fir, near Everett.

      The photograph has "12ft" written near the tree which probably means that the cut in the tree is 12 ft wide.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Kirk G. 4
      Location: Kirk, George W.
    • Description: Man with a bicycle standing inside a large opening cut through a cedar tree, near Snohomish, Washington

      Caption on photo: Bicycle Path Through Cedar, near Snohomish.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Kirk G. 5
      Location: Kirk, George W.
    • Description: View of the Bell-Nelson shipyard and mill at the waterfront, Everett, Washington
      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Kirk G. 6
      Location: Kirk, George W.
    • Description: View from above of snow covered mountain and buildings at the Wellington switchback, Washington

      Caption on photo: Switchback from above Wellington.

      Written on verso: Feb. 22nd 1910. Location of snow slides thousands of dollars in property lost and a score of human lives lost on account of snow slides due to a lack of forest protection.

      Dates: 1910?
      Container: Box 5, Item Kirk G. 7
      Location: Kirk, George W.
    • Description: Studio portrait of woman and 6 month old baby, Dorothy Day [ill.], Chehalis, Washington
      Dates: after 1896
      Container: Box 5, Item Kirk G. 8
      Location: Kirk, George W.

  • Kirwin, Harry

    Active at 1607 Fairview Ave. N, Seattle, Washington, was a photographer with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Harry Kirwin worked the boats and the docks, and he was also a part time newspaperman. He was the co-author with Ralph W. Andrews of the book This was Seafaring – a sea chest of salty memories

  • Kiser Photo Co.

    Active in Portland, Oregon, 1905-1921. Fred H. Kiser was a mountaineer, promoter, and a successful landscape and commercial photographer in the American West during the first two decades of the early 20th century. His work is credited with popularizing Crater Lake National Park and the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon and establishing Glacier National Park in Montana. He and his brother Oscar also operated the Lewis and Clark Official Photographic Co. at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon. Clarence L. Winter, Fred's partner, later operated Winter Photo Company.

  • Kneisle, Joseph J.

    Originally from Denver, Colorado, Kneisle arrived in Seattle in 1903. He was active in Seattle, Washington from 1912- 1925.

  • Knobloch, Basil

    Active in Seattle, Washington. Operator at the Way down East Co., local 162frw.

    • Description: Working staff at Metropolitan Theater, Seattle, Washington

      Names are written on photo and on verso the names and jobs of the pictured men.

      Reading from left to right. Top row standing. 1. Wm Winters, Stage Electrician, local; 2. Eddie Connelley, carpenter, Way Down East Co. local 16; 3. Vic Graham, local; 4. Herbert Govie; 5. Carl Wagner, Leader Orchestra-Metropolitan Theatre.

      Bottom row sitting down. 6. Harry Ives, Property man, local; 7. Wm. Black, Carpenter, local; 8. Dave Davidson, Business, local; 9. John Duane, Flyman, local; 10. Jack Vanslett, Operator, Way Down East co. local 162; Eddie Wagner, Electrician, Way Down East Co, local 162; Photo By Basil Knobloch, Operator Way Down East Co local 162. Metropolitan Theatre, Seattle, Wash. House Crew and Crew of the The Way Down East Co. April 1st 1921. Season 1920-1921.

      Dates: March 14th, 1921
      Container: Box 5, Item Knobloch 1
      Location: Knobloch, Basil

  • Koerner, Frederick J.

    Frederick Koerner was active at 388 East Morrison, Portland, Oregon in 1898. He lived in Portland, Oregon up to 1914.

    • Description: Occidental Hotel and Saloon exterior, Antelope, Oregon

      Written on verso: Finlay McBeth Owner.

      Dates: 1898
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Koerner 1
      Location: Koerner, Frederick J.
    • Description: Street scene with businesses including W. Bolton & Co. and horse drawn carts, Antelope, Oregon

      Written on verso: Supplies brought in from Shaniko/Celilo Falls.

      A fire on July 11, 1898 destroyed the business district of Antelope, Oregon.

      Dates: 1898
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Koerner 2
      Location: Koerner, Frederick J.

  • Kreidler, Myron B.

    • Description: Overnight Passage [boat on the water at night]
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box:oversize XD1, Item Kreidler 1
      Location: Kreidler, Myron B.

  • Landerkin, G.W. & Winter, Lloyd

    Active in Juneau, Alaska, circa 1890.

    Lloyd Winter also partnered with Percy E. Pond in Juneau between 1893-1943.

  • Lawson, Benjamin W.

    Active in Seattle, 1901-1904. In 1901 he is listed with a partner, Anna Nelson at 1331 1/2 Second Ave. That same year he is also listed as working alone at 314 Pike St. He partnered with William T. Lawson in 1903, with H. Earle Napier in 1904 both at the Pike St. address. HIs studio addredd is listed both as at 314 Pike St. and 314 1/2 Pike St.

    • Description: Portrait of woman, Pauline
      Dates: 1901?
      Container: Box/Folder 5, Item Lawson 1
      Location: Lawson, Benjamin W.

  • Lee, Frank Julius

    Active from 1902- 1926 in Tacoma, WA at 17th Street and Jefferson Ave as well as 1525 Commerce Street. Originally form Wisconsin he had a successful career in Tacoma until his retirement in 1940.

    • Description: View of harbor with docked ships and ship repair
      Dates: between 1902 and 1926?
      Container: Box 5, Item Lee F.J. 1-Lee F.J. 2
      Location: Lee, Frank Julius
    • Description: Women's social group holding spears, Tacoma, WA

      Sara Jane Johnston Bodenheimer and her sister Sophia Johnston Thomas are identified on verso of photographs.

      Dates: between 1915 and 1918
      Container: Box 5, Item LeeFJ3-LeeFJ4
      Location: Lee, Frank Julius

  • Leonard Photo

  • Leston, Kirk T.

    Kirk Leston was based in Everett, Washington.

  • Levick, Edwin and Company

    Edwin Levick, originally from London, came to the United States in 1899 and began working as an Arabic translator for the Guaranty Trust Company, New York City. He began taking photographs for various publications, such as the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times. After writing and photographing for newspapers and magazine, he decided to specialize in maritime photography. He is well known for his images of ships and sailboats. His photography studio was very successful and at one point employed seven to eight assistants. The studio was located at 10 West 47th Street, New York City. Levick died in 1929 in New Rochelle, New York. After his death, Levick's studio continued to produce photographs covering a variety of events and topic.

    • Description: Ted Hunter, Dick Durrance and Otto Schniebs skiing downhill

      Written on verso: Ted Hunter, Dick Durrance and Coach Otto Schniebs of the Dartmouth Outing Club's Ski Team who got tor Mt. Rainier for the National Olympic tryouts-April 13th and 14th. Hunter is Eastern Intercollegiate Down-hill Champion. Durrance was the 1934 Downhill Champion of the Eastern Amateur Ski Association.

      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 5, Item Levick 1
      Location: Levick, Edwin and Company
    • Description: Henry (Bem) Woods on skis resting on his ski poles

      Written on verso: Bem Woods- 1933 National Downhill Champion and also a Jumper and Langlaufer of considerable ability. Woods was a member of the recent Washington expedition to Mount Crillon, Alaska.

      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 5, Item Levick 2
      Location: Levick, Edwin and Company
    • Description: Ted Hunter, Dick Durrance, Bem Woods, Sel Hannah and Wrren Chivers skiing downhill

      Written on verso: All except one are the members of the squad the Dartmouth Outing Club is sending to the Olympic tryouts at Mt. Rainier April 13th and 14th. Left to right, Ted Hunter, Dick Durrance, Bem Woods, Cap. Sel Hannah and Warren Chivers. Cap. Hannah will be unable to come to the coast and will be replaced by Linc Washburn. Washburn was third in last years National Championships at Estes Park, Colorado.

      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 5, Item Levick 3
      Location: Levick, Edwin and Company
    • Description: Ted Hunter, Dick Durrance and Sel Hannah skiing downhill, Hanover, New Hampshire

      Written on verso of Levick 4: Here come the Eastern Invaders! Dartmouth's downhill men in training at Hanover, N.H. for the Olympic tryouts at Mt. Rainier Apr. 13 and 14. In front is Dick Durrance, reputed to be the Easts' best Downhill skier. Behind him is Ted Hunter, holder of the 1935 Intercollegiate Downhill title for the Eastern States and Eastern Canada. The third man is the captain of the team- Sel Hannah. Hannah will be unable to come to Rainier, but will be replaced by Line Washburn who was third in the National Downhill Championships at Estes Park, Col. last year.

      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 5, Item Levick 4 to Levick 5
      Location: Levick, Edwin and Company

  • Lewis, F.G.

    Active in Spokane, Washington, 1916; Auburn, Washington, 1917-18; and Port Angeles, Washington, 1925-26.

  • Lewis, Richard T.

    Richard T. Lewish was born around 1906 and died in 1979. He was active at 1809 E. Mission, Spokane, Washington.

    • Description: 3 Air Base chaplains and a civilian man standing in front of donation bins outside Les Critzers mens shop and Winthrop shoes, Spokane, Washington

      Possibly Les Critzer is the 4th man standing next to the chaplains.

      Printed on sign next to the soldiers: Men-Boys, Women-Children, give you old shoes to a poor Korean! Lets fill up the Barrels for our Air Base Chaplains.

      Dates: between 1959 and 1979?
      Container: Box 5, Item Lewis R. 1
      Location: Lewis, Richard T.

  • Libby & Son

    Active in Spokane, Washington.

    Charles A. Libby (1879-1966), born in Olympia, Washington, began his career in photography working for his sister, Addie, in the Libby Art Studio in 1898. He opened the Charles Libby Studio on his own studio in 1901. Libby did both portrait and commercial work from the beginning and took on both portraits, commercial photography, pictures of train wrecks for insurance companies, and houses for real estate companies. When Charles A. Libby, Jr. joined the firm in the early 1920s, the studio began to do extensive aerial photography in and around Spokane and the Inland Empire. During this time, Charles Sr. was elected president of the Inland Empire Photography Association. Charles Libby Sr. was so proud of his son, that in 1928 he changed the company name to “Charles Libby and son”. After Charles, Sr. died in 1966, Charles, Jr. continued to operate the studio until 1969, when he sold it.

    See also Libby & Son in PH 1298 Mid-Century Photographers.

    • Description: View of people, cars, carriages, a street car, and bicyclist, looking East up Riverside Ave. Spokane, Washington
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Box 6, Item Libby 1
      Location: Libby & Son
    • Description: Man and woman in the speedboat GarWood, Spokane, Washington

      Written on Verso: Motor boating on one of the lovely cool lakes of the Spokane area. This is one of the summer sports which are keenly enjoyed by Spokane citizens. The Inland Empire of which Spokane is the capital is often referred to as the "Land of Many Lakes".

      Written on photo: Libby

      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 6, Item Libby 2
      Location: Libby & Son
    • Description: Fold-out panorama, map, and souvenir photographs of the Grand Coulee Dam and its construction, Spokane, Washington

      Printed: by Charles A. Libby & Son, photographers, Spokane, Wash.

      Showing the construction process of the Grand Coulee Dam, a map, a panorama, and night view of the completed dam.

      Dates: between 1933 and 1942
      Container: Box 6, Item Libby 3
      Location: Libby & Son
    • Description: Interior view of a recreation room which probably has a bowling alley with bowls and pins in neon lights on the ceiling, Spokane, Washington

      Written on photo: Libby & Son

      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 6, Item Libby 4
      Location: Libby & Son

  • Liddle, William

    Active in Seattle, Washington, and Alaska.

  • Lindahl, Conrad

    Active at 919 C Street, and 1017 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, Washington, 1892-1908.

    Conrad Lindahl and Ellison A. Lynn were also partners in the late 1890s in Tacoma, Washington. Ellison A. Lynn worked solo under his name in both Seattle and Tacoma, Washington between 1893-1921.

  • Locke

    • Description: Women standing next to long logs on railroad car

      Banner attached to logs reads: Last load of 8086 pieces, 120 feet, peeled fir piling. Consigned to Ford Motor Co., Edgewater, N.J. Produced and shipped by K & K Timber Co., Everett, Washington.

      Dates: between 1910 and 1930
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Locke1
      Location: Locke

  • Long's Studio

    Long's Studio was run by Jacob T. Long from 1919-1923 and by Edward S. Long from 1924-1925. The studio was at 4317 14th Avenue Northeast.

    • Description: Sigma Phi Kappa fraternity photograph
      Dates: between 1920 and 1930?
      Container: Box 6, Item Longs 1
      Location: Long's Studio

  • Longstaff, Frederick Victor

    Frederick Victor Longstaff was born in Surrey, England. He moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1911. He was a major in the military and the head of the maritime committee of the British Columbia Historical Association. He authored a history of the HMCS Naden and Esquimalt Harbour naval base. He died in 1961.

  • Loomis, B.E.

    B.E. Loomis was the mail carrier for Bucoda, Washington. He had a son named Frank.

  • Loryea

    Active at 824 Riverside Ave., Spokane, Washington. Archibald and Milton Loryea were brothers and both active photographers in Spokane, Washington in the early 1890s. The Loryeas were also active in California, primarily in San Jose and San Francisco before moving to Washington. Archibald (Archie) died at age 35 in Spokane in November 1900 and Milton continued photographing through 1914.

    • Description: Studio portrait of a woman holding a fan and standing next to a plant stand, Spokane, Washington
      Dates: 1895?
      Container: Box 6, Item Loryea 1
      Location: Loryea
    • Description: Two photographs of a baby in a white gown and leaning on pillows mounted together, Spokane, Washington
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item Loryea 2
      Location: Loryea
    • Description: Studio portrait of a woman standing next to a seated man and both wearing corsages, Spokane, Washington

      Milton Loryea's name is printed on photo mount.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 6, Item Loryea 3
      Location: Loryea
    • Description: Artist view of a girl wearing a bonnet and looking through shrubbery, Spokane, Washington

      An artistic styled photo.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Box 6, Item Loryea 4
      Location: Loryea
    • Description: Studio portraits of elderly man and woman, Spokane, Washington

      Two separate photographs are mounted side by side.

      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item Loryea 5
      Location: Loryea
    • Description: View of a horse standing in a field, Spokane, Washington
      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 6, Item Loryea 6
      Location: Loryea
    • Description: Still life of a settee sofa with pillows, Spokane, Washington
      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Loryea 7
      Location: Loryea
    • Description: Still life of potted plant and curtain, Spokane, Washington
      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Loryea 8
      Location: Loryea
    • Description: Studio portrait of a young boy wearing a suit and tie, Spokane, Washington
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Box 6, Item Loryea 9
      Location: Loryea
    • Description: Studio portrait of man with moustache and straw hat, Spokane, Washington
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Box 6, Item Loryea 10
      Location: Loryea
    • Description: Studio portrait of a young girl standing behind daisies, Spokane, Washington
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Box 6, Item Loryea 11
      Location: Loryea

  • Lothrop, J. Willard

    Active at 217 and 425 Walker Bldg., University & Second Ave., Seattle, Washington, 1911-1925.

    • Description: Studio portrait of a young man wearing a suit, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: 1915?
      Container: Box 6, Item Lothrop 1
      Location: Lothrop, J. Willard
    • Description: Studio portrait of a man, Seattle, Washington

      Item 2 is the front portrait view and item 3 is the profile view of the same man.

      Dates: 1915?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Lothrop 2-3
      Location: Lothrop, J. Willard

  • Lothrop Bros.

    Brothers, Charles D. and J. Willard Lothrop ran a studio called Lothrop Brothers. The studio was located in Port Townsend, 1901-1906. The brothers were also active in Seattle, Washington under their own names.

  • Lowman & Hanford

    Lowman & Hanford was a store in Seattle. It was started by James D. Lowman and Clarence Hanford in 1882 and existed until the 1960s. Lowman & Hanford sold photo supplies, stationery, books, sewing machines, pianos, and more.

  • Loy Photo

    • Description: Logs piled near mouth of the Humptulips River, Grays Harbor, Washington
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Box 6, Item Loy 1
      Location: Loy Photo

  • Lutz, Rolland Ray

    Born in South Dakota in 1887, Lutz spent his childhood years in St. Paul, Minnesota, and eventually attended Hamline University there. At the age of 27, he decided to turn his interest in photography into a career and purchased the Peter Holmboe Photographic Studio in Mandan, North Dakota, ultimately benefitting from the longest running cottage industry in Mandan. Starting in 1924, members of the Standing Rock Sioux nation were hired by the Northern Pacific Railway to perform as a tourist attraction for patrons who selected the NP line versus their competitors line which ran through Minot. Tribal members would charge a quarter to pose for custom pictures in full traditional dress and Lutz mass marketed these images as postcards for a nickel each. Lutz sold his practice to Lee Mohr in 1937 and moved his family west by rail to Tacoma, WA., where he had recently purchased a new studio. He gained national attention when he was honored with the title "Master Photographer of America," The Lutz's moved to Bainbridge Island when the photographer retired to be nearer to his children and grandchildren. Rolland Lutz died in 1964 and is buried next to his wife on the island.

  • Lynn, Ellison A.

    Active in Tacoma, Washington, circa 1893-1920. Lynn also worked with Earl Cram, Lynn & Cram, in Seattle, Washington, 1906-1910.

  • Lynn & Lindahl

    Lynn, Ellison A. and Lindahl, Conrad were active at the Corner of 11th Street and Pacific Ave., Tacoma, Washington.

    Conrad Lindahl and Ellison A. Lynn were partners in the late 1890s in Tacoma, Washington. Conrad Lindahl also worked independently under his own name between 1892-1906. Ellison A. Lynn worked independently under his name in both Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, 1893-1921.

  • MacKenzie Photo Co.

    Colin S. MacKenzie (1879-1912) also known as C.S. McKenzie, was active in Aberdeen, Washington.

    Colin S. MacKenzie came from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1899 with his great-grandparents, Simon Fraser and Jessie Ann (MacKenzie) Fraser. McKenzie was a deputy sheriff in the Grays Harbor area, had become a studio photographer following a back injury suffered while fighting a fire.

  • Marier Bros

    • Description: Train station and Tanana Valley Railway locomotive

      Attached to verso: Eng. #1, Tanana Valley Ry. Built by H.K. Porter, Pittsburg Pa. in 1877; Builders number 1972 N. gage. Came by boat around cape Horn to St. Michaels; then transferred to a barge and towed up the Yukon River 1176 miles, in the spring of 1905, and used in building Tanana Mines Ry. between Chena and Fairbanks. and in 1906 ran on regular schedule between those points...

      Dates: between 1870 and 1910
      Container: Box 6, Item Marier 1
      Location: Marier Bros

  • Marsh, D.

    D. Marsh was active in Kendrick, Idaho and may have been active in Weiser, Idaho and Big Rapids Michigan as well. He made stereoviews as well including a Yellowstone Park series.

  • Description: Marshall, Frank E. (F.E.)

    See also: Gem Studio.

  • Martin, L.S.

    Was active as a publisher in McMinville, Oregon.

    • Description: People standing in a semi circle outdoors showing their socks

      Written on verso: Loud sox day. L.S. Martin a friend of Kenneth McGrew who went to McMinnville Oregon to go to school.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Box 6, Item MartinL 1
      Location: Martin, L.S.

  • Martin, Milford B.

    Milford Berwick Martin was born in 1883. He owned Martin Photo at S1 Howard, Spokane, Washington, from 1910 or earlier, to 1920 or later.

  • Matsura, Frank

    Frank (Sakae) Matsura (1873–1913) was born in Japan and he arrived in Okanogan, by way of Seattle, in 1903. He operated a photo studio, 1904-1912 and was well known for portraits and landscapes.

    He is a descendant of Emperor Saga, the 52nd emperor of Japan, through the Matsura, lords of Hirado Island (northwest of Kyūshū). His father and uncle were samurai, serving Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate. After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the family entered the tea business. Matsuras parents died, and he was raised by an uncle and aunt, learning English at a school they founded in Tokyo. As further evidence of his family's high standing, he possessed a ceremonial sword.

    In 1903, he answered an ad in a Seattle newspaper for a cooks helper and laundryman placed by Jesse Dillabough, owner of the Elliott Hotel in Conconully, Washington, and was hired. He arrived with his camera equipment and began photographing the Okanogan region. His photographic subjects were wide and varied and included portraits, infrastructure projects such as the construction of Conconully Dam, Native Americans, celebrations and parades, stage coaches, riverboats, farming and ranching, and virtually all aspects of the lives of the people of Okanogan county. Matsura was a respected and beloved figure in this frontier region that he documented with his camera. His funeral attracted more than three hundred Native American and pioneer mourners.

    • Description: View of Rattle-snake Point, on the Okanogan River near Ophir, Washington

      This postcard is dated and postmarked January 27, 1912. It is addressed to Mrs. Henry Donnley of 1622 9th West in Seattle. The correspondence reads: Dear Mother:- Though you would like a picture of this country. This scene is a short ways down the Okanogan from here. Am feeling well and getting along fine. Love, Matt.

      Ophir was a mining town northeast of Brewster in southern Okanogan County. Its post office operated from 1890-1912.

      Dates: January 27, 1912
      Container: Box 6, Item Matsura 1
      Location: Matsura, Frank

  • Maxwell Photographers

    The Maxwell Brothers, Charles Thomas and Joseph D., were active from 1875-1900 in Spokane, Spokane Falls, and on Main St. in Walla Walla, Washington. Joseph D. Maxwell first opened the studio in 1875, and was joined by Charles D. in 1878. The brothers opened two more studios, one in Spokane Falls in 1884 and another in Dayton, Washington. Additionally, the brothers worked with W.W. Maxwell and operated a branch gallery in Lewiston, Idaho, circa 1899.

    • Description: Studio portrait of P.B. Johnson of the Walla Walla Union, Walla Walla, Washington

      The Walla Walla Union, the first republican paper published in the Walla. Walla Valley, issued its initial number on the 17th of April 1869, being published by an association of citizens. In May, R. M. Smith S. Co. were announced as publishers. It continued after 1876, with P.B. Johnson editor, as a country journal.

      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box 6, Item Maxwell 1
      Location: Maxwell Photographers
    • Description: Studio portrait of a seated man holding a baby boy, with a woman and a young girl standing next to him, Washington

      Caption on mount: Maxwell. Walla Walla, W. T.

      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box 6, Item Maxwell 2
      Location: Maxwell Photographers
    • Description: Studio portrait of a bearded man, Spokane Falls, Washington

      Caption on mount: Maxwell. Spokane Falls, W.T.

      Printed on verso: J.D. M. Maxwell. Wolverton block, over Traders National Bnk, Riverside Ave.

      Dates: between 1875 and 1878
      Container: Box 6, Item Maxwell 3
      Location: Maxwell Photographers
    • Description: Studio portrait of a woman, Spokane Falls, Washington

      Caption on mount: Maxwell. Spokane Falls, W.T.

      Printed on verso: J.D. M. Maxwell. Wolverton block, over Traders National Bnk, Riverside Ave.

      Dates: between 1875 and 1878
      Container: Box 6, Item Maxwell 4
      Location: Maxwell Photographers
    • Description: Studio portrait of a bearded man wearing pince-nez glasses, Spokane, Washington

      Caption on mount: Maxwell. B.M., Spokane, W.T.

      Printed on verso: Maxwell Photographers, Traders Block Cor. Howard St. and Riverside Ave., Spokane Wash. Crayon, ink, and water color portraits.

      The additional initials (B.M. or M.B.) Maxwell, may indicate Maxwell Brothers or an additional photographer working at the Maxwell studios.

      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box 6, Item Maxwell 5
      Location: Maxwell Photographers
    • Description: John Dooley with women and children standing the porch of the Stine and Stone Block Mansard home, Walla Walla, Washington

      Printed on mount: Maxwell, Stine and Stone Block, Walla Walla, Washington.

      Originally the home of Dr. Blalock, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1889.

      See [Brodeck & Co. 2] for a photograph of Dr. Blalock.

      Dates: 1892?
      Container: Box 6, Item Maxwell 6
      Location: Maxwell Photographers
    • Description: View of railroad track cut though the rocky Windsor Block mountain area, Spokane, Washington

      Printed on mount: Windsor Block, Spokane Wash.

      Dates: 1892?
      Container: Box 6, Item Maxwell 7
      Location: Maxwell Photographers
    • Description: Man picking apples in orchard near Spokane Falls, Washington
      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Maxwell 8
      Location: Maxwell Photographers
    • Description: Three men picking apples near Spokane Falls, Washington
      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Maxwell 9
      Location: Maxwell Photographers
    • Description: View looking Southwest of the Edison Electric Illuminating Corporation Station, Spokane Falls, Washington
      Dates: 1892?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Maxwell 10
      Location: Maxwell Photographers
    • Description: View of the hydraulic room at the Edison Electric Illuminating Corporation Station, Spokane Falls, Washington
      Dates: 1892?
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Maxwell 11
      Location: Maxwell Photographers

  • Maynard, Hannah Hatherly (Mrs. R.)

    Active in Victoria, British Colombia, Canada, 1864-1912.

    Hannah Hatherly Maynard (1834-1918) (Mrs. Richard) was born in Stratton, Cornwall, England. She married Richard Maynard (1832-1907) in 1852 sailed with him to Canada and lived in Bowmanville, what is now the province of Ontario.

    Hannah became one of British Colombia's first professional photographers. Richard Maynard left his family and joined the Fraser River gold rush 1858-59 and successfully mined the Huson Bar while Hannah learned photography at home in Bowmanville. They emigrated to the Colony of Vancouver Island along with their 4 children in 1862. By 1864 he was noted for his photographic work as well. In 1874 Hannah and Richard built one of the city's first portrait studios, Mrs. R. Maynards Photographic Gallery on Douglas Street at the corner of Johnson, with Richards adjoining boot and shoe store. She experimented with every new photographic techniques, and Richard was almost exclusively known for his landscapes. Both Hannah and Richard were well traveled and photographed their adventures. Her work was marketed under a separate imprint, and his photographs were primarily landscapes.

  • Maynard, Richard

    Active in Victoria, British Colombia, Canada, 1864-1907.

    Richard Maynard (1832-1907) was born in Bude, England. He married Hannah Hatherly Maynard (1834-1918) in 1852, sailed Canada and lived in Bowmanville, what is now the province of Ontario. They emigrated to the Colony of Vancouver Island along with their 4 children in 1862.

    Richard's wife Hannah became one of British Columbia's first professional photographers. In 1874 Richard and Hannah built one of the city's first portrait studios, Mrs. R. Maynards Photographic Gallery on Douglas Street at the corner of Johnson, with Richards adjoining boot and shoe store. Both Hannah and Richard were well traveled and photographed their adventures. Her work was marketed under a separate imprint, and his photographs were primarily landscapes.

  • Mayo & Weed

    Active at 63rd St. & Stewart Ave. Abel Building. (Englewood) Chicago. A partnership of Chicago photographers, Charles A. Mayo and J.E. Weed. The firm were "special artists" for Graftons Tours, which was also a Chicago company. In 1891, J.E. Weed traveled to Alaska with a tour going along the scenic route of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Mayo & Weed published a catalogue and album of this trip. The catalogue described the views of this trip as sized 5x8 and 8x10.

  • McAlpin & Lamb

    Arthur B. McAlpin was born in Pennsylvania in 1856. McAlpin's family moved to San Francisco, California after his birth. He was working as a photographer in San Francisco by the 1870s. In 1884 McAlpin moved to Portland, Oregon. In 1890-91 McAlpin went into business with Charles Y. Lamb forming the McAlpin & Lamb Studio located in the Dekum Building at 3rd and Southwest Morrison Street in Portland. They also operated a gallery in Portland called the Imperial Gallery.

    • Description: Mt. Hood from Stage Road, Oregon (McAlpin & Lamb 125)
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinLamb 1
      Location: McAlpin & Lamb
    • Description: Memaloose Island with view of Victor Trevitt grave marker, Columbia River (McAlpin & Lamb 153)
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinLamb 2
      Location: McAlpin & Lamb
    • Description: Grenville Channel, Bristish Columbia, Canada (McAlpin & Lamb 1002)
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinLamb 3
      Location: McAlpin & Lamb
    • Description: Fairwether Range and Bartlett Cove, Alaska (McAlpin & Lamb 1003)
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinLamb 4
      Location: McAlpin & Lamb
    • Description: Davidson Glacier, Alaska (McAlpin & Lamb 1004)
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinLamb 5
      Location: McAlpin & Lamb
    • Description: People standing on bridge over Indian River, Alaska (McAlpin & Lamb 1063)
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinLamb 6
      Location: McAlpin & Lamb
    • Description: Indian River and forest, Alaska (McAlpin & Lamb 1065)
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinLamb 7
      Location: McAlpin & Lamb
    • Description: People standing in forest near Indian River, Alaska (McAlpin & Lamb 1067)
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinLamb 8
      Location: McAlpin & Lamb

  • McAlpin Garage

    McAlpin Garage in Arlington, Washington was started by Earl McAlpin and was operated by him until his death in 1919. Otis Allen took over the business to great success and expansion of services. Allen operated a business that included freight trucking, under the subsidiary Arlington-Darrington Truck Company, one of the leading gas stations in Arlington that was an agent of Firestone Tires, a car repair shop and the Arlington Distribution Company providing Union Oil products.

    The postcards below could possibly be a souvenir product sold by McAlpin Garage as they all read: Courtesy of McAlpin Garage.

    • Description: Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Wheeler in automobile, Arlington, Washington
      Postcard

      Printed on postcard: Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Wheeler in one of Arlington's first automobile About 1906 Arlington Historical Series No 37 Courtesy McAlpin Garage. Error- Card No 36 should have read "Mr. & Mrs. John Ellingson."

      Dates: 1906
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinGarage 1
      Location: McAlpin Garage
    • Description: Ox and loggers at a skid row, Arlington, Washington
      Postcard

      Printed on postcard: Logging by Ox Team Near Arlington in 1889 Arlington Historical Series No 34 Courtesy McAlpin Garage.

      Dates: 1889
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinGarage 2
      Location: McAlpin Garage
    • Description: Bryon and McDonalds Camp CookHouse and workers, Arlington, Washington
      Postcard

      Printed on postcard: Cook House and Crew- Bryon and McDonalds Camp in 1896- ½ mile south of Edgecomb. Now occupied by H.C. Stineke. A.J. Suttles 4th from Left. Arlington Historical Series No 19 Courtesy McAlpin Garage.

      Dates: 1896
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinGarage 3
      Location: McAlpin Garage
    • Description: People from Arlington in an automobile at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific-Exposition
      Postcard

      Printed on postcard: A load of Arlington Folks visit the A.Y.P. Exposition in 1909 Arlington Historical Series No 33. Courtesy McAlpin Garage.

      Dates: 1909
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinGarage 4
      Location: McAlpin Garage
    • Description: Fourth of July celebration in front of Arlington Hotel, Arlington, Washington
      Postcard

      Printed on postcard: 4th of July Celebration in Arlington in 1902 Parade in front of the Arlington Hotel-Pioneer Series No 8. Courtesy McAlpin Garage.

      Dates: 1902
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinGarage 5
      Location: McAlpin Garage
    • Description: Horse drawn funeral procession on Railroad Avenue, Arlington, Washington
      Postcard

      Printed on postcard: A Funeral on Railroad Ave in Early Days- About 1903 Arlington Pioneer Series No 13. Courtesy McAlpin Garage.

      Dates: 1903
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinGarage 6
      Location: McAlpin Garage
    • Description: Interior of high school classroom, Arlington, Washington
      Postcard

      Printed on postcard: Arlington H.S. in 1904-G.W. Hinman- Teacher- 1st Row; Leo Wilson, Minnie Forbs, Grace Meeker, ?? Anna Robertson, 2nd Row;- Dora Jensen, Martha Jensen, Alice Egan, Beatrice Ford, Earl Rowley, 3rd Row;- Letitia Wallace, Elsa Buel, Ada Phelps, Harry Jones, 4th Row R Lee Persun, Fred Huddle Arlington Historical Series No 28. Courtesy McAlpin Garage.

      Dates: 1904
      Container: Box 6, Item McAlpinGarage 7
      Location: McAlpin Garage

  • McBride & Anderson

    Active at 705 Broadway N. and Seattle’s Loveless Studio building at 711 Broadway E, Seattle, Washington.

    Ella E. Mcbride (1863-1965), was an internationally noted fine-art photographer, as well as an avid mountain climber, environmentalist, and civic leader. Ella had several creative and athletic interests. She belonged to a Spanish Guitar Club, a Bicycle Club, and being tall and broadly built, she soon caught “Mountain fever” as she described it. In 1896, joined the Portland mountaineering organization Mazamas (meaning “mountain goat”) and served as their historian/secretary from 1897-1899. 1897, she met photographer Edward S. Curtis, who was leading a Mazama-sponsored ascent to Mt. Rainier along with his wife and several distinguished climbers and scientists.

    Ella McBride began working in the photography when Edward Curtis convinced McBride to leave her teaching position in Portland and relocate to Seattle to assist him. She accepted and during 1907-1916 she was working in his darkroom and showroom, and manager of his studio. For more than 30 years operated her own successful Seattle photography studio starting in 1917-1922 with Edmund Schwinke. Wayne Albee, (1882-1937), fine-art photographer of Tacoma had also joined the McBride studio by 1919 as partner and chief photographer. Albee moved to San Diego in 1925, and McBride continued to operate a studio in various Seattle locations. Others associated with her studio included the brilliant Pictoralist, Frank Asakichi Kunishige (1878-1960) and Soichi Sunami (1885-1971), who would become a major force in the field of dance photography.

    Her main interest for subject matter centered on floral studies, for which she seems to have had immediate success. Her love of flowers likely stemmed from her recollection of the abundant flora in the foothills of Mt. Rainier. She later recalled, “we were just right out in the rain and picked flowers and the flowers were just gorgeous. it was just a blaze of flowers, you couldn’t step without stepping on flowers or pitch a little tent without the floor covered with flowers” (Molenaar Audio Interview). In 1932 she partnered with Richard Anderson (1908-1970); they continued to work together until she retired in 1954 due to her failing eyesight. She died at the age of 102.

  • McClaire, M.S.

    Morton S. McClaire (d. 1917), was active at 719 ½ Front St., and Shorey Block. Cor. Third and Columbia, Seattle, Washington, 1884-1896.

    See Also: McClaire & Quirk

    The McClaire & Quirk was a studio run by Morton S. McClaire and his partner Quirk. McClaire also worked by in Seattle under several studio names between 1884-1896.

  • McClaire & Quirk

    Active at 719 ½ Front Street, Seattle, Washington, 1885-1886.

    The McClaire & Quirk was a studio run by Morton S. McClaire and his partner Quirk. McClaire also worked by in Seattle under several studio names between 1884-1896.

  • McClinton

    This is possibly Roy and Ray McClinton or Amberson L. McClinton. Roy, Ray and Amberson were sons of James G. McClinton and moved from Aurora, Nevada to Quilcene in 1889 and later to Port Angeles, Washington. Ray and Roy were the youngest in the family and were fraternal twins who photographed mostly around Clallam County. This included Port Angeles school photographs, and the surrounding woods and outdoors. Amberson McClinton was Roy and Ray's older brother, and happened to be a twin as well with brother, Myron. Amberson was a customs and steamship official for the Seattle Port Commission and the deputy collector of customs for Port Townsend. He arrived in Seattle in 1894 and worked for the Alaska Steamship Company as a purser on the S.S. Rosalie from 1897-1900. In 1915 he was put in charge of the Bell Street Dock, Seattle. Amberson died June 5, 1920.

  • McCormick, James A.

    Active at 1608 Belmont Ave., Seattle, and Friday Harbor, 1906-1918.

  • McCutcheon, H.E. (Mr. & Mrs.)

    Active in Alaska.

    • Description: A Christmas postcard of 5 caribou with great multi-point antlers, Alaska
      Dates: between 1860 and 1943?
      Container: Box 6, Item McCutcheon 1
      Location: McCutcheon, H.E. (Mr. & Mrs.)

  • McDonald, A.J.

    Active at 514 9th St., Seattle, Washington. McDonald is listed only in the 1892-93 Corbett Seattle Directory. Some of his images are also stamped "A.J. McDonald & Son." Perhaps the economic panic of 1893 drove him back to California. The California State Library preserves a large collection of his San Francisco subjects, but only a few Seattle scenes survive in local collections. Probably most of his Seattle subjects were taken during the photographers brief stay here.

    McDonald is well known for his stereoviews of California. He is one of the few photographers who recorded a view of the 1863 Cliff House and the Cliff House to Ferry Railroad in San Francisco, California.

    • Description: View of Seattle 8th St. looking northwest toward Denny and Queen Anne hill, Seattle, Washington

      Written on verso: Seattle, looking N.W. toward Denny & Wueen Anee Hills - 1892. Street with car tracks being built is 8th ave Between Pike & Pine Sts. These belonged to Rainer Power & Railway Co. and were built in 1892.

      Dates: 1892
      Container: Box 6, Item McDonald 1
      Location: McDonald, A.J.
    • Description: Schooner Alert, Ferry Boat Ellen, Thetis, and docked ships at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California

      Ships and buildings in the photo are labeled on the photo mount: End of Dry Dock coping. Guard House. Gate House. Monitor Monadnock. Alert. Ferry Boat Ellen. Thetis. San Francisco Marion. Swatara Albatross. Mare Island Straits.

      Dates: February 1891
      Container: Box 6, Item McDonald 2
      Location: McDonald, A.J.
    • Description: Military vessel U.S.S. Monterey

      Written on verso: E.C. [ill.] Liut. Comdr. U.S.N. Seattle Dec. 3rd 1894.

      Dates: December 3, 1894
      Container: Box 6, Item McDonald 3
      Location: McDonald, A.J.

  • McDonough, P.A.

    Active in Alaska, McDonough was the official Navy chief Photographer on the Alaska Aerial Survey Expedition, circa 1929.

    • Description: View of midsummer ice on LeConte Bay, Alaska

      Caption typed on verso (possibly a reprint): A beautiful sight from the empyrean. The midsummer ice on LeConte Bay had the appearance of water lilies or stars in an inverted sky. These "bergs" were as large as ships. Note the vast forest. U.W. Navy Official photo. P.A. McDonough Chief Photographer Alaska Aerial Survey Expedition.

      LeConte Bay is 1 mile across and located at the sound end of Frederick Sound, 17 miles southeast of Petersburg. It was named in 1887 by Lt. Comdr. C.M. Thomas, USN, for Joseph LeConte, professor of geology at the University of California at that time. The Indian name is Hutli, reported by John Muir, in 1884, for the Tlingits' mythical thunder bird, the flapping of whose wings produces the thunder.

      Dates: 1929?
      Container: Box 6, Item McDonough 1
      Location: McDonough, P.A.
    • Description: See Also: C.S. MacKenzie
      Location: McDonough, P.A.

  • McKinney Brothers

    Active in Walla Walla, Washington, circa 1890.

  • McKissick, Joseph H.

    Joseph (Joe) McKissick (1869-1939), was active in Dungeness, Washington, circa 1900s, and owned McKissick Photo Studio.

    McKissicks father was originally from Ireland and his mother a Native Clallam woman named Mary.

  • McKnight Bros.

    The McKnight Brothers, Samuel F. & John C., were active at the corner of Front & Madison Streets, 1019 ½ Front St., and the Front SW corner of Spring, Seattle, Washington, 1887-1914.

    Samuel McKnight also worked at 614 ½ 2nd with Claude Colpitts as Colpitts & McKnight (Claude Colpitts and Samuel F. McKnight), 1902, and at 314 ½ Madison as McKnight & Beaudry, 1892-93.

  • McMillan, Charles

    Charles McMillan's studio was located at 314 Georgia Street, Vallejo, California. He was born in Kingston, Canada in 1853 and eventually moved to Chicago, Illinois before re-locating to California in 1879. In 1891 he moved to Vallejo, California and operated at the corner of Sacramento and Virginia Street.

    • Description: Cruiser U.S.S. Philadelphia

      Written on photo: N.S. Flagship "Philadelphia."

      The U.S.S. Philadelphia Cruiser 4 was launched September 7, 1889.

      Dates: 1889?
      Container: Box 6, Item McMillan 1
      Location: McMillan, Charles

  • McMurry, J.M.

    Active in Port Townsend, Washington, 1886-1902.

  • McPherson, William A.

    William A. McPherson (or McPhearson) was active as a photographer for the Alaska Central Railroad, Seward, Alaska 1903-1906.

  • Mercer, Anson C.

    Active at 113 ½ Marion and 218 ½ Columbia, Seattle, Washington, 1905-1909.

    • Description: View of two men and a boy outside The Reliable Hardware Company at 218 ½ Columbia, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: between 1905 and 1909
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Mercer 1
      Location: Mercer, Anson C.

  • Meresse, Elisee

    Elisee Meresse (1855-1924) studied art, photography, and college in Paris in the 1870's and emigrated to the United States from France in 1889. He and his family settled in Oregon City, with a summer property in Netarts, Oregon. In summers he took photographs of the area and sold prints (some labeled "Netarts photo") in Netarts. In 1894, the family moved to Forest Grove, where Elisee taught art and French, and possibly ran a photography studio.

  • Meriwether, H. B.

    Active in Hoquiam, Washington, circa 1890-1900.

    Henry Benjamin C. "H. B." Meriwether left Alabama circa 1890 established photographic studios in Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Elma, Chehalis County, Washington, conducting those galleries for about ten years, during which he was also in the government employ. In 1900 he left Washington and came to Arizona, conducting photographic studios in different places throughout the state until 1907 when he located in Globe.

  • Mertens, H.H.

    Hugo Henry Mertens was born in Essen, Germany and set up a photography studio in 1889 in Tacoma, Washington. Later he moved to Centralia where he became widely known.

    • Description: Men gathered outside the Golden West Hotel, Centralia, Washington

      Handwritten note in German on verso.

      Dates: May 1909
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Mertens 1
      Location: Mertens, H.H.

  • Merwin, A.J.

    Active in Montesano, Washington, circa 1890s. He also worked as a photographer in Aberdeen, Washington, circa 1901-1904.

    • Description: Studio portrait of a young Lewis Ellsworth Rader wearing a suit and a thick mustache, Olalla, Washington

      L.E. Rader (d. 1911) settled in Olalla in 1901 after serving a term in the state legislature. He was educated and said to be a radical freethinker. He published the Sound Views magazine. Unfortunately he fasted until passing under the direction of Linda Burfield Hazzard's fasting treatment to cure disease, 1911.

      Dates: 1885?
      Container: Box 6, Item Merwin 1
      Location: Merwin, A.J.
    • Description: Studio portrait of a balding man wearing a suit and a thick bushy mustache, Montesano, Washington

      Very similar features of L.E. Radar and possibly a relative.

      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item Merwin 2
      Location: Merwin, A.J.
    • Description: Studio portrait of a young man wearing a suit with a Masonic pin on his vest, Montesano, Washington
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 6, Item Merwin 3
      Location: Merwin, A.J.
    • Description: Portrait of a woman wearing a white dress and standing on a fur rug, Montesano, Grays Harbor, Washington
      Dates: 1892?
      Container: Box 6, Item Merwin 4
      Location: Merwin, A.J.
    • Description: Studio portrait of J.W. Divilbiss of the Montesano Weekly Vidette, Montesano, Grays Harbor, Washington

      J.W. Divilbiss was the Montesano Weekly Vidette editor and publisher, 1889-1902.

      Dates: 1892?
      Container: Box 6, Item Merwin 5
      Location: Merwin, A.J.

  • Meyer, Edward L.

    E.L. Meyer worked in Seattle and also opened a branch studio called Palmos' Studio in Nanaimo in May 1904 and is listed as having a studio in Walla Walla in 1905.

    Also active at various locations on the 314 Pike, Colonial Blk., 37 Safe Deposit Bldg., and 8024 Stroud, Seattle, Washington, 1894-1901. Meyer was also a photographer in Alaska around 1900, where he documented the construction of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad and everyday life activities.

  • Meyers, J.A.

    • Description: Wooden bridge and house, Ferry County Washington

      Written on verso: James [ill.] House at Torodas Ferry Co. House where [ill.] "McDonald of [ill.]" & Japan died.

      Dates: June 28, 1917
      Container: Box 7, Item Meyers 1
      Location: Meyers, J.A.
    • Description: Drilling Seow and U.S.G. Survey cable along water, Kettle Falls, Washington

      Written on verso: W.W.P. Co. Drilling Seow Entrance East Channel of Kettle Falls. Wash. Marcus in distance. Black dots flaws in negative. U.S.G. Survey Cable in centre. Washer Isl.

      Dates: February 27, 1923
      Container: Box 7, Item Meyers 2
      Location: Meyers, J.A.
    • Description: View of Kettle Falls, Washington with machinery, Washington

      Written on verso: W.W.P. work at Kettle Falls Wash. Between Upper and Lower falls Fishery Point. Diamond drilling. Upper Falls. Hayes Island. East Channel. Churan Drill 100' deep. Bowlders [ill.] solid rock.

      Dates: February 27, 1923
      Container: Box 7, Item Meyers 3
      Location: Meyers, J.A.

  • Miles Brothers

    Active in Sitka, Alaska.

  • Miller, C.O.

    • Description: Ship Bailey Gatzert of Portland at the locks
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Box 7, Item Miller C.O. 1
      Location: Miller, C.O.

  • Miller, Walter P.

    Active at 230 Henry Building, Seattle, Washington, as a commercial photographer starting circa 1900. He was also active at Phone Main 8878, Stuart Building, Seattle, Washington.

    Miller was also a partner with Asahel Curtis, 1914-15.

  • Mitchell, John E.

    Active in Puyallup, Washington, 1895-1898, and New Whatcom, circa 1901-1902.

    • Description: Group of people standing outside Yelm Jim's house next to fish trap, Puyallup Indian Reservation, Washington

      Caption on mount: Mitchell, Puyallup, Washington. Yelm Jim's house. [In another hand] Yelm Jim's House - Puyallup Reservation. 1885.

      House belonging to survivor of the Puget Sound Indian War and Nisqually man named [Wa-he-lut or Wahoolit] (d. 1908); also known as Yelm Jim. He is one of the group posed across the water. Two men and three women also pose in front of fenced house with a large fish trap in the foreground. Wa he lut was considered Leschi's most able lieutenant. He fought with Leschi, 1855-1856, and killed Leschi's nephew Sluggia who was also his betrayer. Yelm Jim was sentenced to hang and later pardoned.

      For an additional image of Wa he lut/Yelm Jim, see also: Carpenter 5

      Dates: 1885
      Container: Box 7, Item Mitchell 1
      Location: Mitchell, John E.

  • Mitono, T.T.

    Active at 411 Yesler Way, Seattle, Washington, 1901.

    • Description: Studio portrait of a woman artistically posed, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: 1901
      Container: Box 7, Item Mitono 1
      Location: Mitono, T.T.

  • Monroe, Merrill M.

    Monroe Studio was active at 2108 East 65th Street.

  • Moore, Elbridge W.

    Active at 29 Washington St., Portland, Oregon, starting circa 1870s. From 1884-1887, B.C. Towne and Elbridge W. Moore operated a San Francisco Gallery in Portland as partners. At this time, the studio was also listed as Towne & Moore.

    Moore bought Abell & Son business in 1888. Moore was also the Vice President of Camera Craft in 1903, and exhibited his portraits at the National Exhibition.

    • Description: Portrait of a man wearing a suit and thick mustache, Portland, Oregon

      Printed on verso: Duplicate copies from old Negatives made by Abell & Son, will be supplied at any time at greatly reduced rates. Life-size bromide portraits $10.00. Crayon and Oil Portrait work a speciality.

      Dates: 1889?
      Container: Box 7, Item Moore 1
      Location: Moore, Elbridge W.
    • Description: View of people standing on a river bank and above on bridge, Portland, Oregon
      Dates: 1889?
      Container: Box 7, Item Moore 2
      Location: Moore, Elbridge W.

  • Moorhouse, Lee

    Active in Pendleton, Oregon, 1889-1902.

    Major Lee Moorhouse (1850-1926) was an engineer and clerk before being appointed Lt. Colonel in the militia, serving as secretary to the Governor of Oregon. He later managed a farm and ran a general store in Pendleton. In 1889, he was appointed Indian agent at the Umatilla reservation. He produced over 9,000 images documenting urban, rural, and Native American life in the Columbia Basin and Umatilla County, Oregon, of the Umatilla, Nez Perce, and Cayuse Native American people.

  • Morford, Charles H.

    Active in Seattle, Washington, 1885-1889. Morford photographed many views of the surrounding Seattle area now referenced as subjects for historical comparison "now and then" studies.

  • Morris, Joseph G.

    Joseph G. Morris (Nov 21, 1850 - Feb 8, 1923) worked as a photographer from about 1883 to 1896 at 16 Sixth street in Pittsburgh, PA. About 1897 the address changes to 126 Sixth street, until 1912. He apparently gave up photography about 1913, age 63. He managed a building and worked as a sales agent for about ten years until his death in 1923.

  • Morton & Co.

    Morton and Company was active at 515 Market Street, San Francisco, California.

  • Moulin, Gabriel

    Gabriel Moulin was born in San Jose in 1872 to German and French parents. In 1884 his family moved to San Francisco. He worked in the studios of I.W. Taber and R.J. Waters and Co before opening his own studio at 153 Kearny, San Francisco, California. The studio was the official photographer for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. Moulin died in 1945 but the studio is still operated by Gabriel's sons, Irving and Raymond and his grandson, Tom.

    • Description: Team of oxen in the forest
      Dates: 1890?
      Container: Box 7, Item Moulin 1
      Location: Moulin, Gabriel
    • Description: Mount Rainier
      Dates: 1890?
      Container: Box 7, Item Moulin 2
      Location: Moulin, Gabriel

  • Muirhead, Lewis P. (L.P.)

    Active in Atlin, British Columbia, circa 1902, and at 1743 Melrose Place, Seattle, Washington, 1908-1920. Lewis P. Muirhead made a living as a commercial marine photographer in Seattle and specialized in taking photos of ships and sold the photos to crew members as mementos of their service.

  • Mundin, C.W.

    • Description: Chief Lot (Big Star) on horseback with four men of the Indian Police

      Written on verso: Chief Lott and his Indian Police Taken in North Eastern Washington by C.W. Mundin about 1905.

      Chief Lot (Whistlepossum) was chief of the Lower Spokane American Indians after his brother Chief Big Star died in 1868. By 1887 the Lower Spokane Indians had established a court and police force with Lot on the court. Chief Lot died in 1902. His son, Oliver Lot (Big Star) became chief until his death May 8, 1909.

      Dates: 1905?
      Container: Box 7, Item Mundin 1
      Location: Mundin, C.W.

  • Murchie, Archibald

    Archibald Murchie was active from 1890-1895 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

  • Murdock, Louis E.

    Louis F. Murdock, active at 1611 15th ave., and at 4521 Eastern Ave., Seattle, Washington, late 1890s-1930s.Abel’s Photographic Weekly (Vol. 30, No. 758, July 1922) noted about his autochromes of the Olympic and Cascade Mountains, “there are none better than his anywhere.” Murdock was an active mountaineer, listed in “The Olympic Mountains Climbing Guide,” as having made the first ascent of Mt. Duckabush (later named Mt. Steel) in 1899. He is also listed as a 1907 charter member of “The Mountaineers”.

  • Muybridge

    Eadweard Muybridge came to the United States from England in 1850. He resided in San Francisco and in 1868 became famous for his photographs of Yosemite. That same year he traveled to Alaska to photograph the Tlingit tribe and the Alaskan landscape. He is most famous for his images of animal locomotion. He died in 1904

    • Description: Man on a gig riding a horse
      Dates: between 1870 and 1890
      Container: Box 7, Item Muybridge 1
      Location: Muybridge

  • Myers, J.B.

    Myers was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio on November 4, 1857. He was one of four sons born to John and Mary Myers. He learned photography early on from his uncle, Austin Kracaw. He then moved to Chicago where he studied under various photographers including Rider's and Stefifens'. He started his own business in Peoria, Illinois, where he remained for three years. He afterward returned to his old home town of Washington, Iowa, and later to Biloxi, Mississippi, where he lived for six years. In August of 1902, he purchased the Vassar Northrup Studio at 1414 Hewitt Avenue in Everett, opening Myers Art Studio from 1902-1926.

  • The Nelson Photo Shop

    Active in Spokane, Washington, (possibly Nels B. Nelson), 1913-19.

    Nels Bertelsen Nelson (b. 1876), learned photography in Denmark after high school. After serving the regular army, he traveled to the United States and joined his brother at Nelson, Washington, 1899 (His brother being the namesake for the town). After working as a shop keeper with his brother, a custom broker, and postmaster, he built his own store in Curlew, 1901. In 1903 he opened a branch store in Molson, then partnered into the firm of Anderson Brothers at Brewster and became manager of the Brewster store, 1904.

  • Nelson, Bob

  • Nelson, H.G.

    H.G. Nelson worked in the Hoquiam area in the early 1900s and 1910s. He is listed in the business directory as working in Elma during the mid-1920s.

  • Nicol, J.W.

  • Nordlund

    This is possibly the photographer Norlund, Klaus E.

  • Oakes, M.L.

    M.L. Oakes was from Northern Yakima, Washington. He was known for his exaggerated or "tall tale" postcards. His studio was located in Seattle, Washington.

  • Ober, S.E.

    Author and missionary with the American Missionary Association, Sarah Endicott Ober was born on May 7, 1854 in Beverly, Massachusetts, to Andrew Kimbal and Sarah (Hadlock) Ober. Following several years spent in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee, Ober came to the Pacific Coast in 1901 and worked among the Neah Bay Indians as a missionary, recording data of their life and habits. Miss Ober authored several books and contributed to numerous religious ands secular magazines under the pen name Huldah Herrick, as well as her own name. Sarah Ober died on Feb. 8, 1938, in Harbor, Oregon, at the age of 83.

  • Obergfell, Joseph

    Was active in Carbonado, Washington.

  • Ochi Studio

    Active at 302-18th Ave., Seattle, Washington.

    Mrs. N. Ochi and S. Ochi were both photographers at the Aiko Photo Studio, 1909-1922, and Mrs. N. Ochi partnered with Y. Ogawa, Chi & Ogawa, 1921.

  • Ono, K.

    Active in Tacoma, Washington, circa 1908-1913.

  • Ordway, Frederick K.

    Frederick Ordway died circa 1938 in a plane crash in Oregon. His wife and nephew Herbert Neff continued to operate the studio in Alaska.

  • Pacific View Co.

    Active in Seattle, Washington. Address printed on verso for Pacific View Co.: P.O. Box 522, Seattle, Washington

  • Description: Palace Floating Gallery

    Active in Tacoma and Snohomish areas, Washington. Horton, George D. operated the Palace Floating Gallery.

    See Horton, George D.

  • Paterson, T.W.

    T.W. Paterson was active at the corner of 5th and Washington, Olympia, Washington.

  • Pautzke, Otto W.

    Pautzke (1863-1918) was active at 312 N. Pearl St., Ellensburg and Cle Elum, Washington, 1901-26.

    Pautzke was born in Prussia and emigrated with his family to the United States. He moved his family to Slaughter (present-day Auburn), Washington, and opened his first photography studio. He took pictures of early south King County. In 1896-1897, the Pautzkes moved to Ellensburg where Otto Pautzke set up a photography studio. From 1897-1918, Pautzke took hundreds of photographs of Ellensburg and the Kittitas Valley, as well as studio portraits.

  • Paxton, Andrew B.

    Andrew Paxton was born around 1834. He started photographing around 1861 and in 1865 he and a business partner, Thompson, opened a photograph gallery and saddle and harness factory in Albany, Oregon. From 1868-1869 Paxton trained James G. Crawford in photography. Circa 1870-1872 Paxton relocated to Santa Clara, California but returned to Albany, Oregon around 1873. At some point his studio was located at 583 Commercial Street, Astoria Oregon. James G. Crawford and his brother Orville bought Paxton's business in 1885 but Paxton and James Crawford would become a partnership in 1889 after James bought Orville's share of the business. Crawford and Paxton remained partners until 1893.

  • Peak, Roy M.

    Active at 6516 3rd Ave. N.W., Seattle, Washington.

  • Perkins Studio

    Frank Perkins was born in Alexandria, Minnesota and operated a photography studio in Seattle with his wife, Gertie Fae Perkins. Their studio was located at 717 ½ 3rd Avenue, Seattle, Washington circa 1906, 314 Crown Building at Second and James circa 1924 and 548 North 68th Street circa 1929. His wife specialized in school pictures and after Frank's death in September of 1937 she continued to operate the studio.

  • Perry, Frank R.

    Active in Snohomish, Washington, circa 1893.

    • Description: Studio portrait of Snohomish pioneer E.C. Ferguson, Snohomish, Washington

      Written on verso: E.C. Ferguson. Pioneer of Snohomish.

      Emory Canda. Ferguson (1833-1911) was a likable New York carpenter who joined the gold rush race at 21. He operated a general store near Sutter, then a sawmill, and joined the British Columbia gold seekers before homesteading at Cadyville, which was later called Snohomish, 1858. Into the 1900s Ferguson was in the forefront making deals that established the town of Snohomish. He was postmaster, mayor, realtor, saloon keeper, store proprietor, legislator, and even justice of the peace. Frequently referred to as "The Father of Snohomish," his house still stands in the historic district.

      Dates: 1893?
      Container: Box 7, Item Perry 1
      Location: Perry, Frank R.

  • Peterson, Frederick

    Peterson was active at 1900 First Avenue at the corner of First and Stewart, Seattle, Washington.

  • Peterson, K.G.

    Peterson was active marine photographer at 151 Lawrence Street, B'klyn, New York.

    • Description: Group portrait of captain and officers on the deck of their ship, Brooklyn, New York

      Ranks of officers photographed on verso of photo. Ship is possibly from Glascow because it is printed on the life preserver.

      Container: Box/Folder 7, Item Peterson K.G.1
      Location: Peterson, K.G.

  • The Photo Album

    The Photo Album was active in Auburn, Washington circa 1910s- 1926.

    • Description: People around phone cable laying car, Auburn, Washington

      Written on verso: Mother Load area. Phone Cables to Auburn AND Placerville 2nd to the North.

      Dates: 1911
      Container: Box/Folder 7, Item PhotoAlbum 1
      Location: The Photo Album

  • Photo-Art

    Photo-Art Commercial Studios was located at 215 Sweetland Building, Portland, Oregon. It was owned and operated by Ray Atkeson. Photo-Art studio continued to operate until May 25, 2001 under the ownership of John Patterson. The studio remained well known until its closure due to how it did not switch to digital photo processing but continued to use lab and traditional processing methods.

    See Ray Atkeson above.

    • Description: Four women on a plant covered float during the Rose Festival, Portland, Oregon

      Typed on verso: The floral parade of the Rose Festival is a mass of color and beauty. Dozens of uniquely designed and beautifully decorated floats compete for the prizes. This is the sweepstakes winner in the 1936 parade, which is the principal event of each Rose Festival held in June in Portland, Oregon.

      Dates: June 1936
      Container: Box 7, Item PhotoArt 1
      Location: Photo-Art
    • Description: Man and woman standing on beach with view of Oregon Coast

      Typed on verso: The Oregon Coast Highway parallels the Pacific for the entire length of the state of Oregon. On the Oregon Coast Highway.

      Dates: between 1929 and 1946?
      Container: Box 7, Item PhotoArt 2
      Location: Photo-Art

  • Photo Arts Studio

    The Photo Arts Studio was opened around 1921 in Arlington, Washington by J. Boyd Ellis and Ellis C. Ayer.

    • Description: Chimes and observatory tower on the University of Washington campus
      Dates: Between 1921 and 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 7, Item PhotoArts 1
      Location: Photo Arts Studio

  • Photocraft

  • Photo Shop Studio

    The Photo Shop Studio was active at 1326 Cannon Island Dr., Sitka, Alaska, circa 1922-1972. It was founded by Czerney D. Geyer, who sold it in 1924 to Mary Luella Gilpatrick. Luella ran The Photo Shop with her father, James Henry "Gil" Gilpatrick, from 1924 to 1960. After her fathers death in 1960, Luella ran the business until Dec. 31, 1972.

  • Pinney Studio

    William A. Pinney owned Pinney Studio at 705 1st Ave., and Pinneys Modern Photograph Parlors at 310 Washington Blk, and at 18 Kenney Blk., Seattle, Washington, 1905-1922.

    See also: Christy Studio. Pinney partner.

    • Description: Studio profile portrait of a woman wearing a large locket, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: between 1920 and 1930?
      Container: Box 7, Item Pinney 1
      Location: Pinney Studio
    • Description: Portrait of child, Louise Louie, standing on a chair, Seattle, Washington

      Written on photo: New Republic Cafe 412 7th Ave So, Seattle.

      Dates: between 1910 and 1915?
      Container: Box 7, Item Pinney 1
      Location: Pinney Studio

  • Plummer, F.C.

    Freemont C. Plummer was active in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, 1897-1920.

    Plummer also partnered with Ira A. Kautz, Kautz & Plummer, also known as Sterling Studio, Seattle, Washington, 1895-1898.

    See also, Kautz, Ira A.

  • Plummer, George E.

    George Plummer was born January 8, 1874 in Port Townsend, Washington. After High School and Normal School he began reading law under Judge A.R. Coleman and was admitted to the bar. He practiced law for one year in Port Townsend followed by 5 years in Spokane. He then moved to Seattle where he became the manager of the Puget Sound Tug Boat Company and the manager of the credit department of Puget Mill Company.

  • Pollard, A.V.

    Arthur Vivian Pollard (b. 1904) was active as an Associated Screen News Ltd. photographer, Empress Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia.

    • Description: View from Malahat looking over water to a mountain, British Columbia, Canada
      Dates: between 1920 and 1978?
      Container: Box 7, Item Pollard 1
      Location: Pollard, A.V.

  • Powell, Fred K.

    • Description: Dredge for Dan Cruk on the water, Fairbanks, Alaska
      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 8, Item Powell 1
      Location: Powell, Fred K.
    • Description: Hillside landscape, Cleary Creek, Fairbanks, Alaska
      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 8, Item Powell 2
      Location: Powell, Fred K.
    • Description: Hillside landscape, Cleary Creek, Fairbanks, Alaska

      Written on verso: Looking up Fairbanks Cr., Alaska Foreground, taf. struooing done by ofen deag scraper. Up creek in distance, dredge tailways.

      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 8, Item Powell 3
      Location: Powell, Fred K.
    • Description: Fairbanks Gold Mining Company dredge, Alaska
      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 8, Item Powell 4
      Location: Powell, Fred K.
    • Description: Fairbanks Gold Mining Company Risdon dredge, Alaska

      Written on verso: Fairbanks Gold Mg. Co. Meehan, Alaska 7 & 8 above Discovery. 26 miles NE of Fairbanks. Fred K. Powell, 1914. 3-1/2 ft. Risdon Dredge. 14-30 ft. of ground, worked before. Original depth, 14-18'.

      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 8, Item Powell 5
      Location: Powell, Fred K.

  • Pratsch, C.R. & Co

    Charles Robert Pratsch (1857-1937 ) was active at F Street, between Heron and Wishkah, Aberdeen, Washington, 1888-1913. He took photos of the local sports teams for many years.

    Pratsch left Iowa at the age of 25 with his brother-in-law, Lester L. Darling, and the two homesteaded adjacent claims on the Wishkah River in the Grays Harbor country, 1884. Pratsch had paid Tolman $300 to teach him photography techniques, and built a studio in 1890 to "attend to all classes of work, such as portraits, views, buildings, copying, enlarging, reducing, etc., and charges very reasonable prices". In his later years Charles Robert Pratsch was caretaker of the Laidlow Island duck preserve. He died at the age of 79 a few days after walking into a slowly moving train. His son, Fred Pratsch, acquired the negatives and made prints which he reproduced as oil paintings.

  • Prentiss, Arthur M.

    Prentiss (1865-1940) was active at 45 4th St., Portland, Oregon, 1922. Prentiss joined the Weister Company in 1913, and by 1917, he joined Benjamin A. Gifford, the most famous photographer of Oregon at that time, creating Gifford-Prentiss Inc. The Gifford & Prentiss Studio was located on SW Washington between Twelfth and Thirteenth Street in Portland and lasted until Gifford retired in 1920. In 1922 Prentiss acquired Weister's Studio and negatives. Arthur M. Prentiss principal studio, as a single professional photographer, was in 45 Fourth Street in Portland Oregon. Prentiss is known for producing views of the Construction of Highways in Oregon including the Columbia River Highway and John Day Highway. Prentiss also documented the life and works of people of Oregon.

    See also: Gifford, Benjamin A.

    • Description: Man fly fishing in the middle of a river, Tillamook, Oregon

      Written on verso: Fishing Tillamook Co., Ore.

      Dates: 1922?
      Container: Box 8, Item Prentiss 1
      Location: Prentiss, Arthur M.
    • Description: Beach and road with pedestrians marking the end of the Lewis and Clark Trail

      Sign in photo reads: End of the Lewis and Clark trail as designated by the Oregon State Legislature, marking the furthest West Camp of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1805-1806 and the site of a proposed national memorial.

      Dates: 1922?
      Container: Box 8, Item Prentiss 2
      Location: Prentiss, Arthur M.
    • Description: Waterfall with surrounding forest, Skamania County, Washington
      Dates: 1922?
      Container: Box 8, Item Prentiss 3
      Location: Prentiss, Arthur M.
    • Description: Wakeena Falls with surrounding forest and nearby road, Oregon
      Dates: 1922?
      Container: Box 8, Item Prentiss 4
      Location: Prentiss, Arthur M.
    • Description: Beacon Rock, Columbia River, Washington

      Printed on verso: Beacon Rock on the Washington side of the Columbia River about 45 miles from Portland, Oregon; Next to Gibraltar the world's largest Monolith. This towering mass is the hardened core which filled the crater of an extinct volcano now obliterated by erosion. Named by Lewis and Clark in 1805, it attains a height of 840 feet and has served as a beacon to travelers through the Columbia gorge from the earliest Indian in his dugout canoe to the modern motorist. A trail, now makes the summit of this rock easily accessible.

      Dates: 1922?
      Container: Box 8, Item Prentiss 5
      Location: Prentiss, Arthur M.
    • Description: Man seated on stream bank, Oregon

      Written on verso: A peaceful and shady spot along an Oregon stream.

      Dates: 1922?
      Container: Box 8, Item Prentiss 6
      Location: Prentiss, Arthur M.
    • Description: Fishermen hauling in nets in on beach, near Astoria, Oregon

      Written on verso: Hauling in seiners on the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon. These are Royal Chinook salmon.

      Dates: 1922?
      Container: Box 8, Item Prentiss 7
      Location: Prentiss, Arthur M.
    • Description: Railroad and buildings along the Columbia River Gorge
      Dates: 1922?
      Container: Box 8, Item Prentiss 8
      Location: Prentiss, Arthur M.
    • Description: Man and children on horseback outside a barn
      Dates: 1922?
      Container: Box 8, Item Prentiss 9
      Location: Prentiss, Arthur M.
    • Description: Columbia area Native Americans fishing near Celilo Falls, Oregon

      Printed on verso: Indian fishing for salmon at Celilo Falls just east of the Dalles, Oregon-on the Columbia River Highway. Through treaty with the government the Indians enjoy perpetual fishing rights at this point.

      Dates: 1910?
      Container: Box 8, Item Prentiss 10
      Location: Prentiss, Arthur M.

  • Prettyman, William S.

    Active in Arkansas City and Kansas.

    Prettyman (1858-1932) studied under a civil war photographer, I.H. Bonsall. He found that the studio darkroom was not adventurous enough for him, and following some of the paths that no other white man had been, other than Lewis & Clark, he went out into Native American Indian territories disguised as a hunter on vacation. He hid his camera equipment in his custom built buggy. Some Indian nations had never seen a white man before. He quickly became known as “picture man”, (to the natives) whom he soon began to have friendships with. He is known for his work including the motion photography of the Cherokee Outlet, 1893, (also known as the Cherokee Strip) where he had a 3 story platform erected for the occasion. William made over 10,000 pictures, and is said to be responsible for creating the news photography genre.

    • Description: Studio portrait young man standing next to a seated young woman, possibly siblings, of mixed race of Creek American Indian and Black American
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 8, Item Prettyman 1
      Location: Prettyman, William S.

  • Price Studio

    Mr. and Mrs. S.H. Price were proprietors, and active at 311-W 882 Market, Chehalis, Washington, circa 1925-1926. S.H. Prince was also active in Oakville, Washington, 1915-1916.

  • Puget Sound Landscape and Publishing Photographers

  • Puget Sound Viewing Co.

    Active at 2017 5th St., Seattle, Washington.

  • Rainier National Park Company

    Also called "Ranapar Studio", Rainier National Park Co. General Office, Tacoma, Washington.

    • Description: Bear and two cubs on a street
      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 8, Item Rainier 1
      Location: Rainier National Park Company
    • Description: Bear with head in a barrel

      Printed on verso: A Rainer National Park Photograph. Title: The black bear is very unafraid in Rainier National Park and frequents the camps and hotels for whatever food is available, but for visitors to attempt to feed them is dangerous.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 8, Item Rainier 2
      Location: Rainier National Park Company
    • Description: Man shooting a golf ball off of Pinnacle Peak, Rainier National Park

      Printed on verso: A Rainer National Park Photograph. Title: The longest golf drive ever made-650 yards! The golfer is on the topmost point of Pinnacle Peak, 6,600 feet above sea level. Paradise Inn and other buildings may be seen just above, and to the right of the ball. The great Mountain rises majestically beyond.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 8, Item Rainier 3
      Location: Rainier National Park Company
    • Description: People near ice formation near the summit, Rainier National Park

      Printed on verso: A Rainer National Park Photograph. Title: A spectacular ice formation near the Summit of the Mountain, Rainier National Park. On the right of the picture may be seen foothills enveloped in clouds.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 8, Item Rainier 4
      Location: Rainier National Park Company
    • Description: People near ice formation at Paradise Glacier, Rainier National Park

      Printed on verso: A Rainer National Park Photograph. Title: A party under the direction of guides entering an ice cave in Paradise Glacier, Rainier National Park. The walls of the these caves are of crystal clear ice and in places the light of day filters through in beautiful blue and green colors.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 8, Item Rainier 5
      Location: Rainier National Park Company
    • Description: Dick Williams, Douglas MacLean, William Duggan inside an ice cave of Paradise Glacier, Mount Rainier, Washington

      Printed on verso: Here are the men who took the first horse into the interior of the great ice cavern of Paradise Glacier, Mount Rainier, Washington. From left to right: Dick Williams, cowboy; Douglas MacLean, motion picture star and William Duggan, Swiss Mountaineer. At the right is seen the light from the distant entrance to the cave.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 8, Item Rainier 6
      Location: Rainier National Park Company
    • Description: Paradise Inn on hillside with Mount Rainier in the background, Washington

      Printed on verso: Paradise Inn, Rainier National Park; showing the Paradise River flowing along the floor of the Valley below, and the great Mountain rising majestically beyond the Inn. Nisqually Glacier, which is easily accessible from the Inn, may be seen crushing down the mountainside.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 8, Item Rainier 7
      Location: Rainier National Park Company
    • Description: Nisqually Glacier on the side of Mount Rainier, Washington

      Printed on verso: At the edge of Nisqually Glacier showing the south side of the Mountain, Rainier National Park.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Box 8, Item Rainier 8
      Location: Rainier National Park Company

  • The Rainier Studios (Rainier Photo Studio)

    Frank La Roche was proprietor of The Rainier Studios and active at 707 Second St., Between Columbia and Cherry, Seattle, Washington, circa 1885-91.

    La Roche (1853-1936), arrived in Seattle just after the great fire of June 1889 to find the city in ashes, but soon opened a gallery in the Kilgen block on 2nd Avenue. His studio, in addition to high-class portrait photography, specialized in scenic and industrial views of western Washington state. He produced extensive views of the Seattle waterfront, streets and buildings, early Everett land speculation, ships, logging activities, and American Indians. In addition, he traveled in Alaska, California, the western United States, and along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, taking scenic views which he produced for sale to travelers.

    See also the Frank La Roche Photograph Collection.

  • Rainier Art Studio

    The Rainier Art Studio was operated by Edwin R. Land and Fred G. Brisbois, It was listed in the city directories from 1907 through 1910. It was located at 1420 2nd Avenue, Seattle

    • Description: Portrait of one year old child, Albert Hugh Campbell, Seattle, WA
      Dates: between 1907 and 1910
      Container: Box 8, Item Rainier Art 1
      Location: Rainier Art Studio

  • Rains, J.T.

    Active on Martin St., Blaine, Washington, opened 1895.

    Initially published in the local papers to look for The Elite Studio as his new business, however photo mounts are labeled J.T. Rains.

    The Elite Studio was located in Spokane, Washington and owned by Miss Margaret M. Foster (1867- ?) & Miss Minnie (M.K.) Wachtman (1868-?), where Photographs of children a specialty.

  • Ralston, John Ernest

    John Ralston was born in Indiana in September 1866. He came to Seattle from Chicago circa 1900. He started working for photographer Edward Curtis and would develop Curtis' American Indian photography while Curtis traveled. In 1906 Ralston opened his own studio at 1112 2nd Avenue, Seattle, Washington where he worked until his retirement in 1945. Ralston was in charge of the amateur photograph competition held during the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition on October fourth and fifth, 1909. Prizes were awarded for categories such as best picture of any picnic party and best picture of any building on the grounds.

  • Randolph, Preston Brooks

    Preston Brooks Randolph was a steamboat man, Seattle Park Department foreman and Seattle photographer. He had a photography business with Arthur C. Warner from 1891-1892 called Warner & Randolph. He was married to Agnes Delphine and they had two daughters and two sons. He died in 1934.

    • Description: Men at river bank encampment, Skykomish River, Washington

      Written on photo: Stony Point-Skykomish River.

      Dates: 1892?
      Container: Box 8, Item Randolph 1
      Location: Randolph, Preston Brooks
    • Description: Deception Pass seen from the west, with man fishing at far point of small island, Washington
      Dates: 1892?
      Container: Box 8, Item Randolph 2a
      Location: Randolph, Preston Brooks
    • Description: Rocky beach with trees in background, Sucia Island, Washington

      Written on photo: Puget Sound Series Mushroom Rock. Sucia Is. 627.

      This photo is located on the verso of item Randolph 2a and is probably not by Randolph.

      Dates: 1892?
      Container: Box 8, Item Randolph 2b
      Location: Randolph, Preston Brooks
    • Description: Policemen with police department horse drawn carriage

      Written on photo: Compliments of the Police Department. Seattle, Washington. 3rd 1892 Feb 3rd J.L. Barck Captain.

      Written on verso: Property of S.L. Crawford..

      Dates: February 3, 1892
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Randolph 3
      Location: Randolph, Preston Brooks

  • Range, William

    • Description: View of houses at Savoonga, Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska

      Written on verso: View in Savoonga, St. Lawrence Id., a new, modern village. Photo by Wm. Range, 1925.

      Savoonga is located on the northern coast of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, 164 miles west of Nome, Alaska. It lies 39 miles southeast of Gambell. St. Lawrence Island has been inhabited intermittently for the past 2,000 years by both Alaskan and Siberian Yup'ik people. The island had numerous villages with a total population of around 4,000 by the 19th century. A tragic famine occurred on the island in 1878-80, severely reducing the population. In 1900 a herd of reindeer were moved to the island and by 1917, the herd had grown to over 10,000 animals.

      Dates: 1925
      Container: Box 8, Item Range 1
      Location: Range, William

  • Rea, W.J.

  • Reade, Benjamin A.

    Active at 430 Peoples Savings Bank Bldg., and 605 Lumber Exchange Bldg., Seattle, 1910-1919. Reade also worked in Tacoma with Ernest Peterson in the Peterson Studio during this same period.

  • Reed, William O.

  • Reeves, Charles S.

    C.S. Reeves was active at 18 East State, The Dalles, Oregon.

    • Description: Composite image of buildings and shipyard at the Raymond Lumber Company, Raymond, Washington
      Copy print
      Dates: 1913
      Container: Box 8, Item Reeves 1
      Location: Reeves, Charles S.
    • Description: Composite image of buildings and lumber yard at the Mumby Lumber Shingle Company, Bordeaux, Washington
      Copy print
      Dates: 1913?
      Container: Box 8, Item Reeves 2
      Location: Reeves, Charles S.

  • Reid, Harry Fielding

    Reid (1859-1944) was an American geophysicist. He was notable for his contributions to seismology, particularly his theory of elastic rebound that related faults to earthquakes. In 1890 & 1892, Harry Fielding Reid traveled to Glacier Bay, Alaska. During the expedition, Reid mapped Glacier Bay, collaborated with John Muir, measured the movement of the glaciers, created sketches and made photographs of the glaciers, and produced 24 notebooks. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has transcribed his expedition notebooks.

    Through his mother, Harry Fielding Reid was a great-great-grandnephew of George Washington. He earned a B.A. in 1880 as part of the second graduating class of John Hopkins University. In 1885 he was granted his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the spectra of platinum. 1886 Reid accepted an appointment at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio. He taught physics and mathematics there for eight years before being appointed an Associate at Johns Hopkins.

  • Reid, H.N.

    • Description: Woman seated next to bedroom window
      Dates: 1895
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Reid H.N. 1
      Location: Reid, H.N.
    • Description: View of rocking chair in sitting room next to staircase
      Dates: 1895
      Container: Box:oversize 12, Item Reid H.N. 2-3
      Location: Reid, H.N.

  • Rembrandt Studios

    Rembrandt Studios was located at 106 Third Street and later at 210-1/2 S. Jersey in Portland, Oregon. Photographers listed at the S. Jersey address are L.A. and J.L. Hall.

  • Ribelin, W.H.

    Active in Ellensburg, Washington, circa 1890s, and was a partner at Mesarvey & Ribelin Studio, Portland, Oregon, circa 1895.

  • Richards, Turner

    Turner Richards started a photography company in Tacoma, Washington at age 19. He was related to Paul Richards and Byron Aldrich, prominent Tacoma photographers circa 1898. He was active in the Tacoma Hotel early on until it burnt down in 1935. He ran Richards Studio with his three brothers, Bob, Ed and Nelson. Turner was knowledgeable in cinematography as well and developed films for Disney at one point. He died in Tacoma in February of 1968. The Richards Studio continued operating until 1980.

    • Description: Aerial view of American Smelting & Refining Company, Tacoma, Washington
      Dates: 1935?
      Container: Box 8, Item Richards1
      Location: Richards, Turner
    • Description: Ohop Valley, Tacoma, Washington

      Written on verso: Fertile Ohop Valley. On way to Rainier National Park, near Tacoma. Photographs from The Richards Company Weaver Studio.

      Dates: between 1940 and 1950
      Container: Box 8, Item Richards2
      Location: Richards, Turner
    • Description: Officers and delegates of the American Federation of Labor seated around banquet tables, Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, Washington

      Written on photo: Banquet held at Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, Wash.-Oct. 8, 1941-In honor of International Officers and Delegates to A.F. of L. Convention in Seattle, Washington.

      Dates: October 8, 1941
      Container: Box 8, Item Richards3
      Location: Richards, Turner
    • Description: Fort Nisqually reconstruction at Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington

      General view of stockade and bastion at corner. The camera is viewing the Fort from outside of its walls. The large arch in the center is the main entrance. The buildings are, from the fence back, the Hudson's Bay Co. store, the Grainery, the oldest standing building in Washington, and the storehouse #2. (Tacoma Public Library at https://cdm17061.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17061coll21/id/16978/rec/32).

      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 8, Item Richards4
      Location: Richards, Turner

  • Richardson, T.T.

    Was active in Sprague, Washington. He was an officer of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Washington in 1905.

  • Robertson, L.E.

    Lorenzo E. Robertson was first active in Glenora, British Columbia, 1898. He then moved on to Dawson, Yukon Territory, where he worked at 2nd Ave. & Judge St., Dawson, 1901-1902. Robertson was also active in Fairbanks, Alaska between 1905-1906.

  • Robertson, William Francis

    Active in Seattle, circa 1870-1873; Tacoma, 1880-1883; and Mt. Vernon, Washington, circa 1887-1908.

  • Roe, Will C.

    Active in Ellensburg, Washington, circa 1900.

  • Rogers, A.D.

    Rogers Photo Studio was active in Olympia, Washington, 1889-1906. Rogers took over L. Wilson Clarks Olympia photography studio in 1889.

    See also Guide to the A.D. Rogers Photographs PH591.

  • Rogers, Edwin

    Either Edwin W. Rogers or Edwin R. Rogers, active at 211 Pike St., Seattle, Washington, partnering with Frank A. Urban for Urban & Rogers, 1902-1904, and then on his own at 1 Chapin Bldg, 211 Pike, and 601 Lumber Exchange Bldg., Seattle, Washington, 1904-1914.

  • Romans Photographic Company

    Active in Seattle, Washington, 1900-1920.

    William P. Roman was proprietor of Romans and partnered with Asahel Curtis (1874-1941) at 52 Union Blk., Seattle Washington. Asahel Curtis worked for Romans Photographic Co. from 1907-1911, eventually becoming president and manager of the francize. 1910-11, moved to 625 Colman Bldg., Seattle, Washington. A partnership with Walter Miller as Curtis & Miller lasted for several years before Curtis returned to the Romans Photographic Co. In 1920, this became the Asahel Curtis Photo Co., under which name it operated until his death in 1941.

  • Rosenkranz, Helen R.

    Active at 207 Riverside Ave. corner of Washington St., Spokane, Washington, 1890s.

  • Ross Studio Portraiture

  • Rothi, Rasmus P.

    Rothi owned the Imperial Studio, active at 713 Third Ave. Seattle, Washington, 1890-1910.

    Rothi was an early partner of Edward S. Curtis at their Imperial Studio, Rothi & Curtis, Seattle, Washington, 1893-1895. He was also a partner with Peter H. Sanstrom, Rothi & Sanstrom, Seattle, Washington, 1891-1892, and with Adolph L Cedarholm, Peter H. Sanstrom, Cedarholm, Sanstrom & Rothi, 1890.

    See also: Imperial Studio

  • Rothi, R.P. & Curtis, Edward S.

    The Imperial Studio was active at 713 Third St., Seattle, Washington. Rothi was an early partner of Edward S. Curtis, Seattle, Washington, circa 1893-1895.

    See also Curtis, Edward S.

  • Rush, William B.

    Active in Castle Rock, Washington.

    • Description: View of the church and village buildings of Skamokawa, Washington
      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box 8, Item Rush W 1
      Location: Rush, William B.

  • Sandison, J. Wilbur

    James Wilbur Sandison (1873-1962), was active at 126 ½ W. Holly St., Bellingham, Washington, 1904-1962.

    Sandison learned about photography in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1899. He soon moved to Glendale, California to practice photography, then Honolulu, Hawaii, were he was employed as a photographer in a studio on Nuuanu Street. After the bubonic plague epidemic, he left to settle in Bellingham. He took photos of the lumber, paper, fishing, canning, coal mining, boating, and furniture industries in Bellingham as well as events, people, buildings, street scenes, Native Americans, the waterfront area and various modes of transportation.

    • Description: Aerial view looking south of Bellingham, Washington
      Dates: 1912?
      Container: Box 8, Item Sandison 1
      Location: Sandison, J. Wilbur
    • Description: Union Depot Interurban Stages building at night, Bellingham, Washington

      Building sign reads: Interurban. To Seattle Everett Mt. Vernon Burlington Sedro Woolley "Every hour on the hour".

      Dates: between 1910 and 1920
      Container: Box:oversize 13, Item Sandison 2
      Location: Sandison, J. Wilbur
    • Description: Large group of people kneeling for an outdoor religious event, Bellingham, Washington
      Dates: between 1910 and 1920
      Container: Box:oversize 13, Item Sandison 3
      Location: Sandison, J. Wilbur
    • Description: Two men in the boat Isabelle on the water
      postcard
      Dates: between 1910 and 1920
      Container: Box 8, Item Sandison 4
      Location: Sandison, J. Wilbur

  • Sankowski, H.

    Active photographer on the Chilkoot Pass Trail, Alaska, 1898.

    • Description: View of Klondikers at base camp and hiking on the snow at the Chilkoot Pass Trail, Alaska

      The Chilkoot Trail is a 33-mile (53 km) trail through the Coast Mountains that leads from Dyea, Alaska, in the United States, to Bennett, British Columbia, in Canada. It was a major access route from the coast to Yukon goldfields in the late 1890s. The trail became obsolete in 1899 when a railway was built from Dyeas neighbor port Skagway along the parallel White Pass trail.

      Dates: 1898
      Container: Box 8, Item Sankowski 1
      Location: Sankowski, H.

  • Sautzke

    Active in Ellensburg, Washington, circa 1890s.

  • Savage & Ottinger

    Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909) met and partnered with painter Charles Ottinger, who tinted Savages photographs, in Great Salt Lake City, Utah, 1859-1864.

    Charles R. Savage and George Ottinger operated the Savage and Ottinger Studio in Salt Lake City, Utah., circa 1860s. Ottinger left and ended their short and tumultuous business partnership in 1864 to pursue acting and the photo studio was renamed Pioneer Art Gallery. Savage continued running the studio and traveled through Utah, California, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming photographing landscapes and documenting Native Americans and pioneer life. In 1883 the Pioneer Art Gallery burned down, and many negatives were lost in the fire. Savage reopened the studio as the Art Bazar. Savage was also a mentor to several successful photographers including George Edward Anderson. He ran the studio until 1906 when his sons, Ralph and George Savage took over. Savage was awarded prizes for his photographs in several World Fairs including Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco. Sadly much of Savages photographic work was destroyed when a fire struck his studio in 1883.

  • Scale's Studio

  • Scarborough, C.W.

  • Schallerer, Otto C.

    Otto Clarence Schallerer was active at Schallerer’s Photo Shop, downtown Ketchikan, Alaska, starting 1932. Schallerer arrived in Ketchikan, in the early 1930s. He captured postcard images for the tourists; landscapes, early aerials views of Ketchikan, townscapes, historic buildings, and everyday events.

  • Sciaroni and Hammond, Nome, Alaska

  • Scotford & Co.

    John Harvey Scotford was active at 744 St. Helens Avenue, Tacoma, Washington, circa 1889. In 1891 he had just started a new photography business located at 915 and 917 C Street, Tacoma, Washington and was not yet using the name Scotford and Company. Scotford was active in Michigan, Missouri, and Oregon before moving to Washington.

  • Scott, R.B.

  • Seattle Photo & Art Company

    Active at 314 Pike St., Seattle, Washington.

  • Shaw, David C.

    Active in Lynden, Washington, 1883-1892.

    Born in Iowa, Shaw arrived in Lynden in 1883. After closing his business, he moved to Elkhart, Wisconsin.

  • Shindler, Antonio Zeno

    Antonio Zeno Shindler (1823-1899) was born in Bulgaria. He came to the US in about 1845. He worked for awhile with the English ethnologist William Blackmore. In the 1870s-1890s, he worked as a photographer and artist for the Smithsonian Institution specializing in ethnographic subjects.

    • Description: Nez Perce Chief Timothy (Temutasa) seated holding circular object, Washington, D.C.

      The photograph was made during Nez Perce delegation visit to Washington, D.C.

      Dates: 1868
      Container: Box 8, Item Shindler1
      Location: Shindler, Antonio Zeno

  • Siewert, Herman

    Active at Stuart St., Puyallup, 1889-1890s, and Everett, Washington, circa 1893.

    Photo mounts have professionally-printed strike marks through the original logo, bearing Puyallup as the place of business, and listing Everett as the new place of business. His last name is also spelled Siewert in certain locations.

  • Siga, Shogaburo

    Shogaburo Siga was a Japanese American photographer active at 219 2nd Ave. S., Baker Bldg., Seattle, Washington, 1906-1909.

  • Simberg, Mannie

    Mannie Simberg was born in New York circa 1872. He operated a studio in Long Beach, California. In 1912 he became Newport Beach's volunteer fire chief. He died November 26, 1946 in San Diego, California.

    • Description: People gathered on beach, Newport Beach, California
      Dates: 1910?
      Container: Box 9, Item Simberg 1
      Location: Simberg, Mannie

  • Simmer, Alfred G.

    Active in Wenatchee, Washington, 1917-1926.

  • Sitka View & Portrait Company

    Reuben Albertstone and L. Moosebauer were co-proprietors of the and active in Sitka, Alaska. They photographed southeast Alaskan scenic settings, including Tlingit Indians, Sitka views, and the Treadwell Mine.

    Albertstone also was known as Reuben Albertstone & Co. and possibly Sitkas first resident professional photographer in 1890.

  • Smith, Al

    Al Smith never considered himself a photographer, merely someone who enjoyed taking photographs. After sailing around the Pacific Rim as a steward on merchant vessels as a young man, Smith returned to Seattle with a new camera and a desire to capture his home city on film. Over the course of several decades, Smith amassed tens of thousands of prints and negatives with his On the Spot photography side business, many finding their way to the Museum of History & Industry (where he was a volunteer for more than a decade), the Northwest African American Museum and in a traveling exhibit that chronicles Seattle’s Jackson Street night scene from the 1920's to the 1960's. His love of the early nightclub scene in Seattle led to photographs of such iconic performers as Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. Smith is considered by many to have been responsible for single-handedly chronicling African-American community life in Seattle for a half-century, a brilliantly expressive documentary photographer whose work celebrates the neighborhood and people who inspired him. Never without a camera around his neck, Smith also shot birthday parties and family reunions, pickup basketball games, boxing matches and countless weddings in his spare time. Al Smith died on August 28, 2008, at the age of 92.

  • Smith, D.T.

    Listed as active at 611 Jackson, Seattle, Washington in the 1890 city directory. David Smith (1864-1896) had been initially brought to Neah Bay, and then La Push, Washington Territory with his family by his father Andrew Jackson Smith (1832-1917) who was post master and teacher for the Makah Indian Agency. David homesteaded himself at Quillayute, away from the Quileute village at La Push, and later opened a photography studio in Seattle. Upon his death, his wife Anna Root Wolfe Smith (1856-1922) became the post master in La Push.

    • Description: View of men standing on the first through streetcar on Madison Street, Seattle, Washington

      Sign on street car reads Seattle To St. Paul Via Lake Washington.

      Written on photo: First through car on Madison St.

      Dates: 1890
      Container: Box 9, Item Smith D.T. 1
      Location: Smith, D.T.
    • Description: Quileute Indian women cleaning salmon, flatfish (possibly Curlfin sole), and shellfish on the beach with several traditional fishing canoes in the background, and tribal homes, La Push, Washington Territory

      David Smith’s sister Hattie Smith Pullen (1860-1947) and notorious brother-in-law Dan Pullen (1842-1910) homesteaded in the middle of the higher ground Quileute village of La Push, and were continually forcing their neighbors to sell out, or threatening them, in order to expand Dan’s holdings during the 1880’s. In February 1889, President Cleveland signed an executive order withdrawing from sale and settlement 800 acres of land “set apart for the permanent use and occupation of the Quillehute Indians,” and Dan Pullen’s ongoing disputes with the Indian agents were crystallized when a few months after Cleveland’s order, Pullen burned the village to the ground, and installed a barbed-wire fence forcing the remainder of the Quileute onto the beach. Hattie Smith Pullen and her estranged husband later left in 1897 for Skagway during the Alaska Gold Rush, where she became known as “Ma” Pullen, “Mother of the North” setting up the famed Pullen House hotel, as well as driving stage and operating a bakery,

      Dates: between 1888 and 1889
      Container: Box 9, Item Smith D.T. 2
      Location: Smith, D.T.

  • Smith, E.A.

    Active in Washington, circa 1905

  • Smith, Ida B.

    Mrs. Ida B. Smith (1889-1967) was active in Olympia, Washington, 1901-1910.

  • Smith, Theodore Castle

    Theodore Castle Smith was born in March, 1884 in San Francisco to Harriet Weber and Irving Oliver Smith. In 1911 he was the City Municipal Plant Officer. In 1917 he married Bernice Mary Hart and was working as an electrical engineer. Their address was at Eastlake and Nelson Place, Seattle, Washington. He died in 1966.

    • Description: Mount Shuksan from Wild Goose Pass, Whatcom County, Washington

      From attached material: Mount Shuksan, the most rugged mountain in Washington.

      Dates: September 1916
      Container: Box 9, Item Smith T. 1
      Location: Smith, Theodore Castle
    • Description: Mount Baker from Galena Lakes, Whatcom County

      Written on verso: Mt. Baker-Coleman Pk and Mazama Dome From above Galena Lakes

      From attached material: Mount Baker from Galena Lakes. (x) marking Coleman Peak the site of temporary camp used the night preceding and the night following the ascent of Mount Baker.

      Dates: September 1916
      Container: Box 9, Item Smith T. 2
      Location: Smith, Theodore Castle
  • Description: Smith and Warner

  • Soreboe, John R.

    Active in Tacoma, Washington, 1909.

    • Description: View of the Choir of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Box 9, Item Soreboe
      Location: Soreboe, John R.

  • Soule, John P.

    J.P. Soule (1828-1904) was active at 528 Broadway, Seattle, Washington, and was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts.

    Soule maintained studios on Washington Street in Boston, circa 1861-1882. His subjects in Boston included buildings, the 1869 National Peace Jubilee, the great fire of 1872, and carte-de-visite portraits, and published stereoviews. He photographed mountains in New Hampshire, and the 1866 fire in Portland, Maine. He exhibited works in the Charitable Mechanics exhibitions of 1850, and 1874, winning a bronze medal.

    In 1888, Soule moved to Seattle, and photographed the ruins from the 1889 Seattle Fire and the rebuilding thereafter. He continued to live in Seattle and occasionally took photographs of the growing city until his death.

    • Description: Native American Indian woman seated and weaving a basket at Indian campsite on the tide flats, Seattle, Washington

      The woman is possibly the same as photographed in item Soule 2.

      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 9, Item Soule 1
      Location: Soule, John P.
    • Description: Two Native American Indian men standing and woman seated at a campsite on the tide flats, Seattle, Washington

      The woman is possibly the same as photographed in item Soule 1.

      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 9, Item Soule 2
      Location: Soule, John P.
    • Description: View of heavy snow covering gazebo and houses, Seattle, Washington

      Written on mount: In the "Everygreen State" Feb 1893. Respectfully dedicated to Midge [illeg.] Crawford & [?].

      Printed on verso: John P. Soule, 528 Broadway, Seattle, Wash.

      Dates: February 1893
      Container: Box 9, Item Soule 3
      Location: Soule, John P.
    • Description: View of Prosch residence with people outside and at window, Seattle, Washington

      Printed on verso: John P. Soule, Photographer. 528 Broadway (Had of James St.) , Seattle - Wash.

      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 9, Item Soule 4
      Location: Soule, John P.
    • Description: Panoramic view of Seattle looking down and south from "The Ripley", Washington

      Panorama consists of the combination of two photographs attached with a hinge.

      Written on verso: The is a view of the main part of Seattle, taken from First Avenue and Pike Street by John P. Soule in 1893. The big building near the center is the Burke. The Courthouse, Central School, Armory, University, First Methodist and old Plymouth Churches show up. Second Avenue then was a poor looking business street, inferior to First Avenue. The Arthur A. Denny home is conspicuous. It is the whole block near the center between First and Second Avenues, University and Union Streets.

      Printed on photo: Seattle from "The Ripley".

      Written on mount: 1892 by John P. Soule.

      Dates: between 1892 and 1893
      Container: Box 9, Item Soule 5-6
      Location: Soule, John P.
    • Description: Panoramic view of Seattle looking over downtown and Elliot Bay from First Hill, Washington

      Printed on verso of part 1 of 2: H. H. Dearvorn & Co. Real Estate, 216 Co...al [illeg.] St., Seattle, Wash.

      Printed on verso of part 2 of 2: John P. Soule, Photographer. 528 Broadway (Had of James St.) , Seattle - Wash.

      Dates: 1893?
      Container: Box 9, Item Soule 7-8
      Location: Soule, John P.

  • Spatt

    Active at 314 Pike St., Seattle, Washington, circa 1890s.

  • Spencer & Hastings

    Active on Fort Street, Victoria, British Columbia, 1882-1889.

    S.A. Spencer & O.C. Hastings. Hastings bought out Spencer about 1883 and Spencer moved to Alert Bay. Hastings sold his photographic gallery in January 1889. The location was probably that taken over by J. Savannah at 56 Fort St.

  • Stanton, Henry

    Active at La Porte, Texas.

    • Description: Group of people relaxing on a river bank next to a bridge.

      Printed on verso: Christmas Festivities. At La Porte, Dec. 25, 1893. No 4. Henry Stanton, Scenic Photographer, La Porte, Tex.

      Dates: Dec ember 25, 1893
      Container: Box 9, Item Stanton 1
      Location: Stanton, Henry

  • Stanton, R.R.

    Active at 1812 10th Avenue South, Seattle, Washington. Stanton was also active in Portland, Oregon circa 1907-1917.

  • Star Photographic Company, 1914

    Active at 536 Oxford Street, London, England.

    • Description: Portrait of a young army soldier, London, England

      The soldiers lapel pins state: C 16.

      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 9, Item Star 1
      Location: Star Photographic Company, 1914

  • Stebbins, Nathaniel Livermore

    Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania on January 9, 1847. In 1882 he became interested in photography and began focusing on maritime subjects. He and his wife, Etta Bowles, along with their three children moved to Boston, Massachusetts. In Boston he joined boating and yacht clubs and in 1891 he published the Illustrated Coast Pilot, a book with images of important sailing directions and maritime navigating landmarks. The first edition of the book focused on the United State's east coast while the second edition that came out in 1896, expanded to cover the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf Coast. He died July 10, 1922.

  • Sterling Studio

    Ira A. Kautz partnered with Frank C. Plummer at the Sterling Studio, Seattle, Washington, 1895-1898.

    • Description: Portrait of Ludwig Linfors, Seattle, WA
      Dates: between 1895 and 1897
      Container: Box 9, Item Sterling Studio 1
      Location: Sterling Studio

  • Stratton, R.T.

  • Stuart, Gordon

    Gordon Stuart's images appeared in the Seattle Times circa 1912.

    • Description: Mount Rainier

      Written on verso: Mount Rainier, Sept. 27, 1917 on Wratten and Wainwright Plate, 12- inch Goerg lens. Stop 16, time 1/50 second Elevation about 600o feet, stop 16. taken before noon. bright sun.

      Dates: September 27, 1917
      Container: Box 9, Item Stuart 1
      Location: Stuart, Gordon
    • Description: Mount Rainier

      Written on verso: Mount Rainier by Moonlight, September 27, 1917. Taken on Wratten and Wainright glass plate, exposure 45 minutes, pyro. Goerz Dagor 12 inch lens used.

      Dates: September 27, 1917
      Container: Box 9, Item Stuart 2
      Location: Stuart, Gordon

  • Surry's Studio

    Active at 619 ½ First Ave., Seattle, Washington. This is most likely the studio of Vincent H. Surry, who worked in Seattle during the same period.

  • Sunset Studios

    Active in Port Angeles, Washington.

  • Swick, Professor

    Active at 106 Washington St. Seattle, Washington.

    Printed on verso: Everybodys Gallery, Prof. Swick, Proprietor, 106 Washington St.

    Written on verso: E.P.B. Feb 14th, 1872.

  • Swihart, Charles

    Charles Swihart was an employee of the Treadwell Gold Mining Company in Treadwell, Juneau, Alaska circa 1896- circa 1913.

    • Description: Mexican Mine team running fire hose down the street, Treadwell, Alaska

      The Treadwell Company had four mines operating at one point, the Treadwell, 700-Foot, Mexican and Ready Bullion mines.

      Dates: July 4, 1912
      Container: Box 9, Item Swihart 1
      Location: Swihart, Charles

  • Takano Studio

    Tay Takano was a Japanese photographer, and proprietor of Takano Studio and active at 316 Maynard Ave., Seattle, Washington, circa 1920-1925. Takano, sold the business to his apprentice Henry Miyake.

  • Talbot, C.B.

    Active in Tacoma, Washington, 1880s-1890s.

    Charles Beal Talbot (?-August 13, 1900), an architect and civil engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad who lived in Portland, Oregon, and Tacoma, Washington. He photographed Mt. Rainer with Henry M. Sarvant, a surveyor and civil engineer in Tacoma, Washington. Talbot contributed many articles to national photography magazines

    See also: Photograph album of Mount Rainier, Washington, and Alaska for more Talbot photographs.

  • Taylor, Gilbert Morris

    Gilbert Morris Taylor was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 12, 1894 and studied photography in 1923. He moved to Atlin, British Columbia in 1924 where he set up a photography studio. Due to a similar photographer stamp and style, it is likely Gilbert Morris Taylor bought photographer L.C. Read's photography studio in Atlin shortly before Read's death. He stayed in Atlin until 1930 when he transferred his studio to Jasper. In 1936 he built his own studio at #630 Connaught Drive. This studio he sold to Tom Johnston of Saskatoon, SK in 1948 and moved with his wife, Helen Emelyn Hickey, to Santa Barbara, California. He had two sons, R. Loring and W. Morris Taylor. He died in 1967.

    L.C. Read's photographs of similar style are located in the Lyman Cary Read Photographs of Mountains near Atlin, B.C., Canada; PH Coll 1121.

  • Taylor, Harold A.

    Harold A. Taylor was born in England on July 24, 1878. Taylor lived in Coronado, California from 1939-1940 and operated a photography studio in the Hotel del Coronado. He was known for his landscapes and photographed presidents, celebrities and other guests of the Hotel. He was charter member of the San Diego Rotary club. He died in La Mesa, California on February 9, 1960.

    • Description: Fishermen from the Pacific Tuna Canning Company on the boat Rosalina with their tuna catch, San Diego, California
      Dates: 1915
      Container: Box 9, Item Taylor H.1
      Location: Taylor, Harold A.

  • Taylor, Lachlan

    Active in Pullman, Washington, circa 1895.

  • Theo's

    This is probably Theo Mentzer who was active in the Portland, Oregon area in the 1930s. Prior to moving to Portland he was active in Tacoma, Washington.

    • Description: Rock formations and beach, Washington

      Written on photo: Wash. Pacific Coast.

      Printed on verso: Theo's Grants Pass, Ore.

      Dates: between 1920 and 1940
      Container: Box 9, Item Theo 1
      Location: Theo's

  • Thomas, J.E.

    Jesse E. Thomas (1859-1928), was born in Bloomington, Wisconsin. Shortly after his marriage to Rosa Hampton he moved to Iowa where he opened a photograph gallery. He returned to Wisconsin and then went to Nebraska for a year. After than he spent time in Minnesota and then in 1886 he moved west to Washington where he set up a gallery in Cheney, Washington. On February 23, 1890 his studio burned down and he lost all of his equipment and negatives. He rebuilt his business again but in 1891 he picked up an moved his family to Port Angeles. He made family portraits, Port Angeles scenes, portraits of navy personnel. When the Pacific Squadron held maneuvers offshore, he photographed the ships from a small boat. He had a serious illness and his doctor recommend that he work out in the open air rather than in a darkroom. He became a lighthouse keeper and his first station was the Cape Flattery Light on Tatoosh Island. He photographed the lighthouse, the landscape, and the Mahah Indians at their summer camp at Tatoosh. He later worked at the Ediz Hook Light Station, Port Angeles, Washington. Most of his negatives were destroyed over the years.

  • Thompson, Stephen Joseph

    Thompson (1864-1929), was active at Columbia St., opposite Colonial Hotel, Port Hope, Ontario, New Westminster, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1886 with the Bovill Brothers (Thompson & Bovill). Later on his own at 620 Columbia St., 1887-1890, and 610 Granville St., 1890-1898.

    He established a branch studio in Vancouver in December 1897. For a while after the New Westminster studio had been destroyed by fire on September 11, 1898, he maintained a Vancouver and a New Westminster studio. Thompson was a prolific and versatile photographer equally at home in portrait and landscape work. He photographed extensively along the Canadian Pacific Railway throughout the 1890s. Thompson visited the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893. Two years later he was commissioned to obtain views of farms around Edmonton. In 1898 he accompanied an official expedition to northern British Columbia and Wrangel led by the Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Louis Coste.

  • Thurberton

  • Titsworth, B.B.

    Possibly Burton B. Tipsworth, not a professional photographer. He lived in Seattle, Washington 1894-1901.

  • Tostrup & Fetters

    Einar Tostrup & Charles Fetters were active at 25 Heussy Bldg., 5102 Leary Way, and 1773 Market St., Seattle, Washington, 1904-1915.

  • Towne, W.H.

    Photographer Joseph Buchtel sold his studio, the San Francisco Gallery located at First and Morrison Street in Portland, Oregon to W. H. Towne in 1880. W.H. Towne operated the studio until his death in 1884, when Bertram C. Towne and Elbridge W. Moore took over operations.

    • Description: Studio portrait of a young man
      Dates: between 1880 and 1884?
      Container: Box 9, Item Towne W. 1
      Location: Towne, W.H.

  • Toyo Studio

    Active at 215-604 ½ Main, Seattle, Washington, 1915-1925. Toyo Studio was operated by J. Mori and S. Ito, circa 1915-1919, and then by K. Kiyota, 1923-1925.

    See also the Guide to the Toyo Studio Photographs of the Tanaka School of Dressmaking and Guide to the Frank Fukuda Photograph and Ephemera Collection for additional photos by K. Kiyota.

  • Train, Edgar Horace

    Train partnered with W.J. Cromwell for the Train and Cromwell gallery, active at Main St. between Wall and Commercial St., Idaho City, Idaho Territory, 1864-1865.

  • Tropple, Allen W.

    Tropple (b. 1897) was active in Spokane, Washington.

  • Truesdell, Herbert M.

    Truesdell was born in Sterling, Kansas on March 17, 1898. He was an active member of the Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.) and was superintendent of their radio school, often teaching classes in radio operations in the 1920s. He was the radio operator aboard the ships, the S.S. Ketchikan in 1919 and the S.S. President Madison in 1924. In 1926 he was a part of opening Camp Orcila on Orcas Island and was in charge of photography and map-making classes.

    • Description: Interior of the reading room, Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, Seattle
      Dates: between 1920 and 1930?
      Container: Box 9, Item Truesdell 1
      Location: Truesdell, Herbert M.
    • Description: Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, Seattle
      Dates: between 1920 and 1930?
      Container: Box 9, Item Truesdell 2
      Location: Truesdell, Herbert M.

  • Turner Photo

  • Turner, Orren Jack

    • Description: Profile of a woman
      Dates: between 1860 and 1943?
      Container: Box:oversize XC1, Item Turner O.J. 1
      Location: Turner, Orren Jack
    • Description: Portrait of a woman
      Dates: between 1860 and 1943?
      Container: Box:oversize XC1, Item Turner O.J. 2
      Location: Turner, Orren Jack

  • Twidle, Henry

    Henry Twidle was hired by the British Columbia Mills Timber & Trade Company as a time keeper in 1905. He and his wife moved to one of the logging camps at Rock Bay, British Columbia where Twidle began traveling throughout the camps, photographing the pioneers and logging activities around him. Twidle and his wife eventually moved to Granite Bay, British Columbia where they worked the local hotel and general store.

    • Description: Forest clearing with rocks and trees
      Dates: Between 1905 and 1920?
      Container: Box 9, Item Twidle 1
      Location: Twidle, Henry
    • Description: Steam donkey engine
      Dates: Between 1905 and 1920?
      Container: Box 9, Item Twidle 2
      Location: Twidle, Henry
    • Description: Donkey engine on the Pacific Coast
      Dates: Between 1905 and 1920?
      Container: Box 9, Item Twidle 3
      Location: Twidle, Henry

  • Unique Foto Service

    McNett & Winslow were co-proprietors, and active at 1210 ½ 1st Ave., Seattle, Washington, circa 1930s.

    • Description: View of the Roosevelt Hotel, Seattle, Washington

      Written on photo: Roosevelt Hotel, Seattle. John Graham A.I.A. Architect & Engineer. A W Quist & Co. Contractors. Dec. 31 - 1930.

      Dates: December, 31, 1930
      Container: Box 9, Item Unique 1
      Location: Unique Foto Service

  • U'renn, Andrew

    Andrew U'renn was born in Cornwall, England in 1848. In 1877 he moved to California and in 1882 to Seattle, Washington. He was a portrait photographer active at 1418 5th Avenue West, Queen Anne, Seattle.

    • Description: University of Washington Merchant Marine class standing in front of Engineering building

      Names of men typed on verso including instructors and students.

      Dates: November, 1919
      Container: Box:oversize 13, Item U'renn 1
      Location: U'renn, Andrew
    • Description: University of Washington Merchant Marine class standing in front of Engineering building

      Written on verso: Left to Right 1. Harry John McIntyre (Instructor), 2. A.M. Winslow (Instructor), 3. John James Quigley. 4. Henry Emanuel Anderson 5. Otto Alexander Sundquist 6. Charles Remi Engel 7. Frederick Stewart Clingan 8. John Leo O'Day 9. Irving Miller Gage 10. H.B. Sallee (Instructor) 11. Arthur Edwin Andrew 12. G.S. Wilson (Instructor).

      Dates: December, 1919
      Container: Box:oversize 13, Item U'renn 2
      Location: U'renn, Andrew
    • Description: University of Washington Marine Engineering class standing in front of Engineering building

      Written on verso: Left to Right 1. H.B. Sallee (Instructor), 2. John Osborne Jones 3. George Merchant Beale 4. Leo Hubert Dashley 5. Harry Stanley Wilson 6. Edward James Logan 7. Clarence Richard Burwell 8. E.O. Eastwood (Instructor).

      Dates: January, 1920
      Container: Box:oversize 13, Item U'renn 3
      Location: U'renn, Andrew
    • Description: University of Washington Marine Engineering class standing in front of Engineering building

      Names of men typed on verso including instructors and students.

      Dates: February, 1920
      Container: Box:oversize 13, Item U'renn 4
      Location: U'renn, Andrew
    • Description: University of Washington Merchant Marine class standing in front of Engineering building

      Names of men typed on verso including instructors and students.

      Dates: January, 1919
      Container: Box:oversize 13, Item U'renn 5
      Location: U'renn, Andrew
    • Description: University of Washington Merchant Marine class standing in front of Engineering building

      Names of men typed on verso including instructors and students.

      Dates: December, 1918
      Container: Box:oversize 13, Item U'renn 6
      Location: U'renn, Andrew
    • Description: University of Washington Merchant Marine class standing in front of Engineering building

      Names of men typed on verso including instructors and students.

      Dates: November, 1918
      Container: Box:oversize 13, Item U'renn 7
      Location: U'renn, Andrew

  • Urie, (either J or R.C.)

    Active in Enumclaw, Washington, 1913-1918.

  • Van Dyke Studio

    Active at 1112 2nd Ave., Seattle, Washington, circa 1914-1925.

  • Vaughan, J.W.

    Was active in Kendrick, Idaho.

  • Vincent, Ralph

    Active at Oswego 3151, Journal Building, Portland, Oregon. Ralph Vincent was a photographer for the Oregon Journal. He died March 11, 1988.

  • Vikdal, P.G.

    Active in Everett, Washington, 1913-1926.

  • Vitart Studio

    Vitart studio was founded in 1928 by Alma Shelton in Walla Walla, Washington. In 1948 Alma married Claude Gray, prior to that she had been married to Converse Madison. Alma Gray was an active member of the national council of Photographers Association of America and the secretary of the Professional Photographers Association of Walla Walla. The studio was located at 14 ½ Main, and later at 23 E. Main in Walla Walla, Washington.

    • Description: Business card for C.C. Madison of Vitart Studio with image of Madison and a camera

      Printed on card: C.C. Madison Commercial Dept Vitart Studio. Vitart Portraits reflect your personality. Phone 715. 4 ½ Main Walla Walla Washington.

      Handwritten list is on verso.

      Dates: June 1915
      Container: Box 9, Item Vitart 1
      Location: Vitart Studio

  • Waggener, James Jr.

    James Waggener Jr. was an active scenic and in Hood River and Vancouver, Washington, 1890s

    Waggener (d. 1933) possibly the same man who owned Jas. Waggener Jr. Books, Stationery & Music at Main St. between 5th & 6th, Vancouver, Washington, 1880s. in Vancouver, Washington.

  • Wagness & Sather

    John T. Wagness (d. 1936) and Edward A. Sather were active at 947 C St., Tacoma, Washington, 1896.

    Wagness was active in Tacoma, Washington, 1887-1899, and Stanwood, Washington, 1900-1918. He was also partners in the studio King & Wagness, 1887.

  • Wainwright & Arland

    Active in Montesano, Washington.

  • Walander & Burkhart

    Active at the Broadway Studio, corner Broadway & Utah St., Butte, Montana, circa 1880s.

  • Walbridge, W.S.

    Active in Slaughter, Washington. The town was platted in 1886 and named for William A. Slaughter, a U.S. Army officer at Fort Steilacoom killed at the beginning of the Indian War of 1855-56. In 1893, the town changed its name to Auburn in reference to the major hop-farming town of Auburn, New York.

  • Wale, Herbert E.

    Herbert E. Wale was born in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He moved to Bremerton, Washington in 1907 where he opened the Prints of Wales Shop located at 324 Pacific Avenue. As a veteran of the Spanish-American war, he was a charter member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Bremerton. He died March 25, 1962.

    • Description: U.S.S Nitro and U.S.S. Pyro launching at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington
      Dates: December 16, 1919
      Container: Box 10, Item Wale 1
      Location: Wale, Herbert E.
    • Description: Puget Sound navy yard aerial view, Bremerton, Washington

      Written next to photo: Puget Sound Navy yard from the air, Port Orchard Bay on the right...increased demands upon the yard made necessary the construction of a second larger dock. This was 867 feet long, 145 feet deep and was put in service March 1, 1913. The first of the three construction piers shown above was built in 1913.

      Dates: 1932?
      Container: Box 10, Item Wale 2
      Location: Wale, Herbert E.
    • Description: Puget Sound navy yard aerial view, Bremerton, Washington

      Written next to photo: Puget Sound Navy yard from the air, Port Orchard Bay on the right...increased demands upon the yard made necessary the construction of a second larger dock. This was 867 feet long, 145 feet deep and was put in service March 1, 1913. The first of the three construction piers shown above was built in 1913.

      Dates: 1932?
      Container: Box 10, Item Wale 3
      Location: Wale, Herbert E.
    • Description: Bremerton Public Library exterior
      Dates: 1932?
      Container: Box 10, Item Wale 4
      Location: Wale, Herbert E.

  • Wallace

    Wallace, possibly Winfred Wallace, Redmond, Washington, listed in the 1913 King County directory.

    "Winfred Wallace, was a local fellow with a keen eye and a good camera who never married and died young.”

    • Description: Photo postcard of Main Street in Bothell, Washington

      Correspondence reads: This is a little town near Seattle. We were there last night. Went over in a little boat -- Papa 8/14/09.

      This penny postcard is postmarked August 14, 1909. 9 PM. Worlds Fair Seattle 1909. This refers to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

      Dates: August 1909
      Container: Box 10, Item Wallace 1
      Location: Wallace

  • Walsh, Francis

    Francis Walsh specialized in rare materials and books. He was located at 1337 Broadway, New York until 1892 when he moved to 137 East 23rd Street.

    • Description: Composite photograph of famous women
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 10, Item Walsh 1
      Location: Walsh, Francis
    • Description: Composite photograph of famous men
      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Box 10, Item Walsh 2
      Location: Walsh, Francis

  • Walters, S.

    Active at Walters Studio, 310 Liggett Bldg, Seattle, Washington.

    • Description: Group of six women in costume, Seattle, Washington

      Standing, left to right: Mrs. J.B. Bronlette, Mrs. Levitire, Mrs. C. Deny, Mrs. Marie Peck. Sitting, left to right: Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. C.W. Robertson.

      Stamped on verso: Photo by S. Walters, Walters Studio, 310 Liggett Bldg., Seattle.

      Dates: between 1930 and 1940
      Container: Box 10, Item Walters 1
      Location: Walters, S.
    • Description: Seattle Police department group portrait in front of Seattle Asian Art Museum front doors

      Written on verso: S S Evans chief clerk Plice Dept. Western Engraving and Colortype Co. The Seattle Engraving Co. 721 Viriginia Street Main 1896 Seattle, Wash.

      Dates: between 1930 and 1940
      Container: Box 10, Item Walters 2
      Location: Walters, S.

  • Ware, Roy Bennett

    Roy Bennett Ware was born April 2, 1890 in Laramie, Wyoming where he was trained in photography. In 1910 his family moved to Cuba for his father's work as a railroad engineer. In Cuba Roy was employed as an industrial photographer covering mining and railroads. In 1918 he moved to Seattle, Washington.

    • Description: Path in a wooded park
      Copy print

      Written on verso: possibly "Deep in the shadowy Greenwood".

      Dates: July 10, 1920
      Container: Box 10, Item Ware 1
      Location: Ware, Roy Bennett
    • Description: Stream in a wooded park
      Copy print

      Written on verso: possibly "Deep in the shadowy Greenwood".

      Dates: July 10, 1920
      Container: Box 10, Item Ware 2
      Location: Ware, Roy Bennett

  • Waters, Lorin B.

    Lorin Bingham Waters was active in Tacoma, Washington, 1904-1906, and at 8081/2 3rd Ave. and various 1st Ave. locations, Seattle, Washington, 1909-1925.

    • Description: View of houses and car driving up dirt Fauntleroy Ave. grade before trolley tracks installed, Seattle, Washington

      Written on verso: Fauntleroy Ave. graded for first trolley=site near present ferry dock. 1907. From: Frances Adams Burke, Sept. 1976.

      Dates: 1907
      Container: Box 10, Item Waters 1
      Location: Waters, Lorin B.
    • Description: View of John Adams standing on Fauntleroy Ave. grade, Seattle, Washington

      Written on verso: Fauntleroy Ave. graded for first trolley. John Adams stands near same maple tree (other pic) 1907. From: (his home back of tree) Frances Adams Burke, Sept. 1976.

      Dates: 1907?
      Container: Box 10, Item Waters 2
      Location: Waters, Lorin B.
    • Description: View of Wilson home on Fauntleroy Ave. grade overlooking beach, Seattle, Washington
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Box 10, Item Waters 3
      Location: Waters, Lorin B.

  • Wathey Studio

    Active in Sedro-Woolley, Washington.

  • Watkins, Robert

    • Description: Aerial view of the Quadrangle with the Music Building under construction, University of Washington, Seattle
      Dates: before 1950s
      Container: Box:oversize 13, Item Watkins 1
      Location: Watkins, Robert

  • Watson

    Possibly Watson, Joseph E., active at 225 First St., Portland, Oregon, 1890-1892. There was also a studio named Watson & Woodruff, Portland Oregon, 1916.

  • Weider Photo

    Weidner Photo was located in San Francisco, CA.

    • Description: Men fishing off of rock outcropping in water

      Written on photo: Fishing on the cliffs.

      Dates: 1910?
      Container: Box 10, Item Weidner 1
      Location: Weider Photo

  • Wells, A.E.

    A. E. Wells was the official photographer for the U.S. Navy, War Department in the early 1920's.

    • Description: Soldiers marching down street for review by President Harding in downtown Seattle

      Written on photo: The Review by President Harding at Seattle July 27-1923.

      Dates: July 27, 1923
      Container: Box 10, Item Wells 1
      Location: Wells, A.E.

  • Western Photo Co.

    Was located in San Francisco, California and managed by Robert Burns.

    • Description: Young girl in checkered dress
      Dates: between 1890 and 1910?
      Container: Box 10, Item Western 1
      Location: Western Photo Co.

  • Wheeler, H.L.

    H.L. Wheeler was active on Lake Street, Snohomish, Washington.

  • White, (possibly John M. White)

    Active in Vancouver, British Columbia.

    Possibly the portrait photographer John M. White who operated White Studio in Vancouver, B.C. circa 1897-1917. He was committed to the New Westminster Asylum for the Insane in 1917. Mrs. Mattie (Faulkner) White managed Whites Studio, 1912-1913 and 1917-1932, following her husband's committal.

    • Description: Studio portrait of a young man and woman, Vancouver, British Columbia

      Printed on mount: White, leading photographer, Vancouver, B.C..

      Dates: between 1897 and 1917?
      Container: Box 10, Item White 1
      Location: White, (possibly John M. White)
    • Description: Young adults assembled at Halloween costume party

      Written on verso: Fisher Taylor 23-45-1.

      Dates: between 1897 and 1917?
      Container: Box:oversize XC1, Item White 2
      Location: White, (possibly John M. White)

  • Wiffen & Waltman

    Ernest R. Wiffen and Charles E. Waltman were active in Spokane and at 22-1007 ½ 3rd, 22 Madison Blk., and 528 Union, Seattle, Washington, 1913-1916.

    • Description: Posed portrait of a young woman at a writing desk with papers and holding a quill pen, Spokane, Washington
      Dates: 1905?
      Container: Box 10, Item Wiffen & Waltman 1
      Location: Wiffen & Waltman

  • Wilburn, J.A.

    Possibly associated with Colville Photographs.

  • Wilcox, F. Billie

    Frank Billie Wilcox was born April 25, 1884 in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a photographer in Centralia, Washington. In 1931 he was the Superintendent of Photography for the Southwest Washington Fair. He married Esther Deardorff Wilcox July 3, 1911.

    • Description: Native men holding American flags on horseback at the Pendleton Round Up Parade, Pendleton, Oregon
      Dates: 1930?
      Container: Box 10, Item Wilcox FB.1
      Location: Wilcox, F. Billie

  • Wilcox, W.H.

    W.H. Wilcox (1865-1940) was active in Port Townsend, Washington.

    Wilcox moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1890. While in Tacoma he became interested in photography and took several trips with fellow photographer and mountaineer, A.A. Denman. In 1897 Wilcox moved to Port Townsend for a job with the U.S. Customs Service, and continued to work as a photographer. As an amateur photographer, Wilcox won several photo contests.

  • Wildman, Ben

    Ben Wildman was active at Terminal Sales Building, Seattle, Washington circa the 1930s-1940s. The Wildman Studio was advertised for commercial and illustrative photography.

  • Williams, Gordon Sear

    Williams was active at 5740 36th Avenue Northeast, Seattle, Washington. During the 1930s he wrote for various aviation and plane magazines such as Air Trails and Flying Magazine. In 1943 he received a Bachelor of Arts form the University of Washington.

    • Description: Aerial view of University of Washington campus
      Dates: 1940?
      Container: Box 10, Item Williams 1
      Location: Williams, Gordon Sear

  • Willis, H.I.

    Active in Colfax, Washington, 1890s.

  • Wilton, Thomas H.

  • Winchester, F.E.

    Winchester (d. 1914), was active in Walla Walla, Washington, 1884-1890.

  • Wing, W.E.

    William E. Wing was active at 608 West Sharp Ave., Spokane, Washington from 1897-1909, and in Sprague, Washington, from 1913-14.

  • Wingren, Ole J.

    Active at the Ole Wingren Stationary Store and Photo Studio, Morris St., La Conner, Washington, circa 1890s-1916.

  • Winter Photo Company

    John A. Winter (1860-1916) was active in Eugene, Oregon, 1864-1869 and again 1891-1905; Portland, Oregon, 1911-1917 and Vancouver, Washington between 1920-1926. He also operated photography businesses in Albany, Brownsville, and Jefferson; all towns in Oregon.

    Imprint on verso states the Winter Photo Company is successors to Winter & Brown, Eugene City, Oregon, U.S.A. The Winter Photo Company was first located in Eugene, Oregon and was operated by Clarence L. Winter and Sue Dorris in 1891. From 1888-1900, Winter was the photographer of Oregon State University. In 1902, Clarence became partners with his wife, Frances D. and together they worked in Eugene until 1905. The studio moved to Portland, Oregon around 1911 and operated there till 1917. Winter was associated with the Kiser Photo Company between 1911-1914, and became its successor in 1917. Winter and his wife also ran a studio in Vancouver, Washington between 1920-1926.

    A number of times during his career, Winter was plagued with poor health. At one point he owned a sheep ranch in addition to a photography studio. Winter employed the bartering system in his business. One of his ads promises to trade portrait taking for firewood.

  • Wilson, T.H.

    Was active in San Francisco, California.

  • Alfred S. Witter

    Alfred S. Witter (1876–1956) was active 1892-1956. He established his photography business at 625 N Summit Ave., Seattle, Washington, 1897, and later opened branches in the cities of Bridgeport and Waterville in central Washington. His images depict the first automobile in Bridgeport, fires, commercial buildings and individual businesses, visits from the governor, boat traffic on the Columbia, ranches, wheat harvests, and much more. His wife was also a photographer by trade.

  • Wolfe, Frank E.

    Frank E. Wolfe owned and operated Wolfe Photo studio in Yukon Territory, Dawson from the late 1890s to around 1920. Wolfe Photo studio was one of the major photographers of the Yukon area gold rush.

  • Wolfe, G.M.

    • Description: Whaling station at Grays Harbor, WA
      Dates: June 1912
      Container: Box 10, Item WolfeGM 1
      Location: Wolfe, G.M.

  • Wood, Warren P.

    Warren P. Wood was born in 1858 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Warren and his brother A. Brier Wood studied engineering at the University of California and were surveyors of Washington and Oregon from 1883-1932 and traveled to the Puyallup Valley, Auburn, Yakima and the Whitman Mission among other locations.

    • Description: Montgomery Homestead wood house

      Written on verso: Wm. Montgomery Homestead. Montgomery house 154 Front View By W.P. Wood.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Box 10, Item Wood 1
      Location: Wood, Warren P.

  • Woodard, Alonzo Bixby

    Woodard (1840-1918) was active at 5 Front St., in Vaughns Brick building, Portland, Oregon, 1862-1866; Tumwater, Washington, 1867; and Olympia, Washington, 1868-1880.

    Woodard also worked with Joseph Buchtel, and later moved to Washington. Woodard became a prominent dentist in Olympia, leasing his studio to Oliver Dennie in 1873 and later selling it to L.W. Clark in 1881.

  • Woodfield, Frank W.

    Frank Woodfield was born in Astoria, Oregon, on July 17th, 1879. Woodfield was introduced to photography by Elmer Alan Coe in 1910. Woodfield was active in Astoria, Oregon from 1910-1942 and took many images along the coastline of Oregon. He began to make and market photo postcards. Frank died in 1954 in his home in Tolovana Park, Oregon.

  • Worden, John Elmer

    John Elmer Worden was born in 1861. He was located in Wrangell, Alaska in 1898. Worden was Wrangell's postmaster from 1900 until 1917. He was also Wrangell Town Clerk from 1905-1925.

  • Worthington, William T.

    William T. Worthington (d. 1912) was a traveling photographer active in the Puget Sound regions of Tacoma, LaConner, Bellingham, and Port Townsend, Washington, 1883-1890.

    • Description: Studio portrait of man wearing a mustache, Seattle, Washington

      Noted on verso: From the Ames family album, and possibly includes a relative to E.G. Ames.

      Printed on verso: W.T. Worthington. Traveling Photographer. Puget Sound. Washington Territory.

      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box 10, Item Worthington 1
      Location: Worthington, William T.
    • Description: Studio portrait of Mr. E.G. Ames (right) and another man wearing hunting apparel and holding rifles with a dog lying between them, Seattle, Washington

      Printed on verso: W.T. Worthington. Traveling Photographer. Puget Sound. Washington Territory.

      In 1936, Washington lumberman E. G. Ames and his wife Maude Walker Ames endowed a fund at the University of Washington to retain "the scholarly and educational services of the most distinguished minds available." The money was used to bring guest lecturers and professors to Seattle to teach.

      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box 10, Item Worthington 2
      Location: Worthington, William T.
    • Description: Two men wearing hunting apparel and holding rifles with a dog lying between them, Seattle, Washington

      Originally from the Ames family album, and possibly includes a relative to E.G. Ames.

      Printed on verso: W.T. Worthington. Traveling Photographer. Puget Sound. Washington Territory.

      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box 10, Item Worthington 3
      Location: Worthington, William T.
    • Description: Rent & Holmes Lumber viewed from water with log driving, Port Blakeley
      Copy print

      Original photograph missing. Have bottom portion of matt board with photographers information.

      From accompanying material: Port Blakeley Puget Sound, Washington. Average Capacity 300,000 per day. Renton & Holmes Lumber Dealers Office, 3 Stewart St., San Francisco.

      Dates: between 1880 and 1890?
      Container: Box 10, Item Worthington 4
      Location: Worthington, William T.

  • Wyman, Jasper Newton

    J.N. Wyman, known as "Jap" (b. 1869), was an accomplished photographer in Galesburg, Illinois. In April of 1898, Jasper N. Wyman left his native state of Illinois bound for Alaska. He and 24 other members of the newly created Galesburg-Alaska Mining and Developing Company had each contributed $700 and put together a complete outfit of mining equipment, clothing and provisions to last more than two years. His photos were published in Journey to the Koyukuk : the photos of J.N. Wyman, 1898-1899.

  • Yeager Home Portrait Studio

    Active at 1305 Commercial Street, Bellingham, Washington.

    • Description: Whatcom county Sheriff's men on horseback and in uniform

      Written on photo: Whatcom County Sheriff's Posse. Bellingham, Wash.

      Dates: May 30, 1954
      Container: Box 10, Item Yeager 1
      Location: Yeager Home Portrait Studio

  • Yeigh, Tom S.

    Tom Yeigh was an Alaska woodsman and possible mink farmer in Tanana, Alaska. He operated as a guide at Tanana Crossing, Alaska, a big caribou migration route.

    • Description: Caribou in a line on hill, Franklin, Alaska
      Copy print

      Printed on photo: Caribou, Franklin CPR 1914 by T.S. Yeigh.

      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 10, Item Yeigh 1
      Location: Yeigh, Tom S.
    • Description: Caribou in a line on hill, Franklin, Alaska
      Copy print

      Printed on photo: Caribou, Franklin, Alaska, Copr 1914 by T.S. Yeigh.

      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 10, Item Yeigh 2
      Location: Yeigh, Tom S.

  • Young, William W.

    Active in Dyea, Alaska.

    • Description: Street view of the people standing outside Troy Laundry, Dyea, Alaska

      Printed on verso: I am from Olympic News Stand, Main St. Bet. 2nd & 3d. Dyea, Alaska. Only Place to Buy Your Newspapers, Magazines, Stationery, Cigars, Novelties Etc. W.W. Shorthill, Manager.

      Written on verso: This is an old Trading post.

      Dyea was a trading post located at the south side of the Chilkoot Trail, which was abandoned when the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad chose the White Pass Trail, which began at Skagway, for its route.

      Dates: 1898
      Container: Box 10, Item Young 1
      Location: Young, William W.
    • Description: View of the valley and port, Dyea, Alaska
      Copy print

      Dyea was a trading post located at the south side of the Chilkoot Trail, which was abandoned when the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad chose the White Pass Trail, which began at Skagway, for its route.

      Dates: 1898
      Container: Box 10, Item Young 2
      Location: Young, William W.
    • Description: Tents and camp of Government Relief, Dyea, Alaska

      Printed on front: CAMP OF GOVERNMENT RELIEF EXPEDITION, Dyea, Alaska.

      Printed on verso: I am from Olympic News Stand, Main St. Bet. 2nd & 3d. Dyea, Alaska. Only Place to Buy Your Newspapers, Magazines, Stationery, Cigars, Novelties Etc. W.W. Shorthill, Manager.

      Dates: 1898
      Container: Box 10, Item Young 3
      Location: Young, William W.
    • Description: Canyon City with view of The El Dorado Hotel, Shepard's Store, The Montana Sample Room, Dyea, Alaska

      Printed on front: Canyon City, Dyea Trail.

      Printed on verso: I am from Olympic News Stand, Main St. Bet. 2nd & 3d. Dyea, Alaska. Only Place to Buy Your Newspapers, Magazines, Stationery, Cigars, Novelties Etc. W.W. Shorthill, Manager.

      Written on verso: Mr. Eaton's store is just across the way form the Montana Saloon Large blocks of wood are piled beside his place. There is also a tent back of his place and a wagon near the tent.

      Dates: 1898
      Container: Box 10, Item Young 4
      Location: Young, William W.

  • Zemick, Al

    Active in Chatham Straits, Alaska

    • Description: View of Native American Indian Hieroglyphics near Chatham Cannery, Alaska

      From accompanying letter: Dear Miss Garfield; I am enclosing a few pictures of some Indian hieroglyphics which I have taken and am very interested in. The carving are locating in a small bay of Chatham Straits, which is in Southeastern, Alaska. Evidently the art of understanding hierography has not been handed down to the present day natives of this region, as none of them are able to translate the meanings. However I did learn from them that the location of these carvings was for many years a gathering place of several tribes. Although I haven't had the opportunity to see many of them, I am told that this region is rich in such carvings. I am hoping to see and photograph more of them. Incidently, I had to touch these carvings up a bit with paint to bring out the detail for photographing. They are however readily seen by the naked eye. I would greatly appreciate it, if you could tell me something of the nature of this work. I will be seeing you in the Fall when I come in to make up my incomplete.

      Dates: June 23, 1941
      Container: Box 10, Item Zemick 1-3
      Location: Zemick, Al
    • Description: View of rocky outcrop where Native American Indian Hieroglyphics were found near Chatham Cannery, Alaska

      From accompanying letter: Dear Miss Garfield; I am enclosing a few pictures of some Indian hieroglyphics which I have taken and am very interested in. The carving are locating in a small bay of Chatham Straits, which is in Southeastern, Alaska. Evidently the art of understanding hierography has not been handed down to the present day natives of this region, as none of them are able to translate the meanings. However I did learn from them that the location of these carvings was for many years a gathering place of several tribes. Although I haven't had the opportunity to see many of them, I am told that this region is rich in such carvings. I am hoping to see and photograph more of them. Incidently, I had to touch these carvings up a bit with paint to bring out the detail for photographing. They are however readily seen by the naked eye. I would greatly appreciate it, if you could tell me something of the nature of this work. I will be seeing you in the Fall when I come in to make up my incomplete.

      Dates: June 23, 1941
      Container: Box 10, Item Zemick 4
      Location: Zemick, Al

  • Zimmerman, Charles A.

    Charles Alfred Zimmerman (1844-1909) was born in France and immigrated to the United States, settling in Saint Paul, Minnesota by 1856. He was a photographer, employed by Joel Emmons Whitney then partnered with Whitney, 1870s. He purchased Whitney's studio at 174 Third Street in 1871 and partnered with Paul A. Zimmerman and Edward O. Zimmerman (creating Zimmerman Brothers) adding photo supplies to their company. Paul took over after Charles' death.

    Zimmerman photographed the Winter Carnival with Truman Ward Ingersoll, 1887. Zimmerman traveled to and photographed the Pacific Northwest, offering stereographs and portraits in oil, watercolor, India ink, and crayon of his work, circa 1876.

    Zimmerman's work appears in the 1886 Anthony's Photographic Bulletin. Volume XVII.

    • Description: View of Hotel Index and Gunns Peak on the Great Northern Railway, Index, Washington
      Dates: 1876
      Container: Box 10, Item Zimmerman 1
      Location: Zimmerman, Charles A.
    • Description: Tzi-Kal-Tza, son of Captain William Clark, seated in field holding rifle, Montana

      From attached label on back of photo: "The date of this man's birth was either about June, 1806, or March, 1807... He was engaged in the Nez Perce Indian War in Idaho and Montana, and was made prisoner with Chief Joseph at the Battle of Bear Paw Mountain. He was sent with Joseph and other prisoners to Indian Territory, where he died in 1878 or 1879, aged about 72 years old...During my residence in Montana I often met this half blood son of Captain Clark...With an appreciation of the historical interest which I would some day attach to this man, I persuaded him to have his photograph taken...The Hon. Granville Stuart, the first Secretary of the Historical Society of Montana, who was well acquainted with Captain Clark's son, has confirmed my declaration that this is his picture, and none other,..." -- Nathaniel Pitt Langford, St. Paul, Minnesota.

      Dates: between 1866-1867?
      Container: Box 10, Item Zimmerman 2
      Location: Zimmerman, Charles A.

  • Zubick, Dolph J.

    Originating form Butte, Montana, Zubick attended Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington before finishing his education at the University of Washington in 1935.


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